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proceed to extremities, if I would convince myself that 

 he was right, and I was wrong. I did so, and assured 

 him of my regret at having been so shamefully misled 

 by my landlord ; and, much to my good friend, the 

 late Mr. Wyndham of Dinton's, amusement, as well as 

 mine, I discovered that the net I had destroyed was 

 his, lent to the farmer on that occasion. Of course, I 

 presented Mr. Wyndham w^ith another net, and then 

 the affair ended. This made me a little cautious as 

 to liow I claimed any more rights on my landlord's 

 authority ; and I refused to shoot on the best partridge 

 ground, Place Farm, the property of my friend, Lord 

 Arundell, till he put into my hands the authority on 

 Avhicli he assumed to let that shooting to me. He 

 had told me he had a written document giving him 

 the exclusive shooting of that land ; so he could not 

 Avell escape from an attempt to produce it. On exami- 

 nation, it proved to be nothing more than a written 

 permission from the late Lord Arundell to shoot upon 

 the farm. As he had pretended to the noble lord then 

 in possession that he had a right over this land, the 

 moment I got possession of the document I sent it to 

 Wardour Castle, begging Lord Arundell to put it in 

 the hre, so to put an end to any further impudent 

 as well as empty assumption. Lord Arundell after- 

 wards gave me the right over this farm, which I used 

 during the two years I remained at Teifont. A funny 

 thing happened while I shot over and preserved this 

 farm, which amused me very much. At the foot 

 of it ran a little stream, from the great Fonthill 

 Lake, the property of Mr. Morrison ; the stream un- 

 doubtedly belonged to Lord Arundell, or at least half 

 of it ; so I exercised the right to fish. The bailiff of 

 Mr. Morrison, though he never said anything to me 



