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not (jroiu on tliese barren lands, unless you give tliem, 

 so to speak, a subsoil of golden guineas, all of Avliicli 

 gold would vanish with the first crop cut from above 

 it, and the application of gold must, therefore, 

 amount to an annual outlay, which would in no way 

 be remunerated by an annual return. We, as sports- 

 men, would be glad to see these useless acres, as 

 far as game goes, in cultivation; for to the Y)Yo- 

 prietors of heaths and moors, if there are no moor- 

 game, there is no sporting enjoyment save as a 

 snipe, a hare, or rabbit. 



I should like to lay hold of one of those political 

 bleaters, and set him down on many a heath within 

 my knowledge, and even giving him a sum of 

 money, with good sureties against bolting, tell him 

 to raise crops out of white sand and shingle, with 

 an iron pan beneath it, under which again there 

 was any deptli of sand, sj^arkling Avhen dry like 

 glass, and whiter still than the flints and sand of 

 the superstructure. I think He would be very glad 

 to let such sites return to the state in which they 

 were in when ho lavished on them and their pro- 

 prietors the senseless verbiage of his violent invec- 

 tive, and return to the more lucrative culture to 

 him, but not to the working classes generally, of 



