IGO FACT AGAINST FICTION. 



lands to a tenant-farmerj or grow anything on 

 them ourselves but a jack-snipe, wliat truth or 

 justice is there in charging the landowners with 

 a cruel privation upon the starving poor? The 

 poor, indeed ! Why the poor are really put in 

 want by ^'unions" and ^^strikes/' both of which 

 are advocated by tliese evil and selfish-purposed 

 orators, wlio stump it now in every direction, and 

 do incalculable mischief. 



If in England we cannot let certain districts, 

 wliy are we not to preserve a jack-snipe, or wild 

 duck or hare, if these are the only products that 

 the land gives us ? 



If in Scotland we cannot let our rocky moun- 

 tains for agricultural purposes, they will not carry 

 sheep, why not permit us to keep deer, and so 

 employ a vast proportion of the labouring poor in 

 the shape of gillies ? In Wales the same thing would 

 apply in some places ; so, if we cannot get income 

 and a supply of food for ourselves and the public, 

 who can really liave a jusfc quarrel witli us for getting 

 some pleasurable recreation, derived, too, from among 

 the l^urdcns ever attending on landed property? 



Having thus looked into the real state of the 

 so-called ^^ neglected waste lands," let us now look 



