54 FACT AGAINST FICTIOX. 



1)0 parcelled off to the labourers — tlie original 

 landlord sent a-begging ! 



Surely tliat is not a state of things to be desired 

 by the great- body of English, Scotch, and Irish 

 landowners and farmers ; nor ought any of them 

 to allow themselves to be deluded by revolutionists 

 and blatant men, such as Odger, Podger and Co., 

 to whom any sort of political mischief is agree- 

 able ! But I am not without hope that the true 

 yeomanry of England will still cherish and protect 

 that wholesome feeling for their landlords, if I 

 may so express myself, which has so long existed 

 and kept both classes together in one common bond 

 of obligation. 



But to return to the management of an estate. 

 When the landlord joreserves the game, great care 

 should be taken res^^ecting the characters and 

 habits of the men appointed as gamekeej^ers. A 

 gamekeeper being more out of his master's sight 

 and more his own master than a butler is, should, 

 for that reason, be even more trustworthy in cha* 

 racter than the keej^er of the cellar. A master can 

 count his bottles and keep a cellar-book, and have 

 besides a personal knowledge of the exact quantity 

 of Avine in each bin ; but he cannot count his 



