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like qualities of the many farmers in this 

 district over whose land I have hunted. We 

 have been welcomed almost without exception. 

 But just one or two incidents on the other 

 side of the picture come back to me, and he 

 would be a lucky man indeed who had 

 hunted as many years as I have without 

 getting a Httle grumbling. 



One day when we were in full cry across a 

 certain farm which shall be nameless, the 

 farmer came rushing up, stopped me, and 

 ordered me off his land. 



^' But my good man," I tried to explain to 

 him, " don't you know that I have been 

 hunting over this land for the last forty years, 

 and my father before me ? " 



He pulled me up short. 



" Look you here," said he, '' if you have 

 been over this land for forty years, you have 

 been here quite enough. Off with you ! " 



I could not help laughing, for he had 

 caught me, fairly and squarely. I said *' All 

 right old chap. You've got me. I'm oflF!" 

 However, we were the best of friends after- 

 wards, and I always hunted over his farm, a& 

 of yore. 



