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desired that in the future, while subject- 

 ing animals of prey to compression, as it 

 were, it will never be permitted to crush 

 them altogether out of existence. 



Poaching 



Wherever game abounds there will 

 the poacher be. Poachers, it is true, are 

 found in greater numbers and more incor- 

 rigible, expert, and reckless in their nefari- 

 ous practices on English and Irish moors, 

 and those of the south of Scotland, where 

 dense masses of industrial populations are 

 centred, than in the sparsely peopled 

 Highlands of Scotland. Poachers differ 

 widely in degree of blameworthiness. He 

 who surreptitiously, but rarely, succumbs 

 to what may be called the poacher's 

 instinct, but generally leads an honest in- 

 dustrial life, cannot be graded with a larger 

 class who, though ostensibly and habitually 

 in regular employment, more or less fre- 

 quently give way in considerable numbers 

 to the pleasures and profits which, appar- 



