122 FACT AGAINST FICTION. 



Ranger or head of the Office of Woods and Forests, 

 in the event of his having an old servant who, 

 through drinking or other incapacity, he wants to 

 be rid of, has been always inclined to stick him 

 into the hole for which he was totally unfitted, 

 and put him to serve the CroAvn, because he had 

 it not in him to serve anybody or anything else. 



Those incorrigible ruffians in a village as above 

 alluded to, were best away from the site where 

 they had so long revelled in ill-earned beer and bad 

 example, and, if driven away by the full and fair 

 administration of the law, — whether of the Game 

 Law or any other statute, matters not, — their 

 absence on the surrounding population has a 

 more beneficial effect than their presence. 



I have, in my time, written so much as to game, 

 tliat I fear to be charged with saying the same 

 thing over again. But silent as I might wish to 

 be, there are so many aggressions now made, 

 at every corner of the land where a ^^ stump" 

 demagogue can get a ragged audience, upon the 

 landed aristocracy, that I must speak up for those 

 who must ever be regarded as tlie brain, and in 

 war as the gallant right-hand of old England in 

 the dangerous hour. 



