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for heincr charitable. The fact itself carries, or oujxht 

 to carry, so much pardonable self-gratification with 

 it, that where a man is charitable the donor should 

 feel more happy than the receiver. I know that I 

 do, when I give anything away ; perhaps novelty 

 causes the feeling in me, because I have so little to 

 give, and were I richer the grace might wear off. 



I remember my keeper coming to me, and re- 

 porting that, to use his words, " there was a rummish 

 looking customer " in a little planted gravel pit, near 

 the new church at Highcliff, who had passed a night 

 there, and said he should do the same on the nisht 

 of the day when this report was made. I was angry 

 at this, and said I would not have vogrants of the 

 sort lying about in the plantations, and ordered the 

 " rummish customer " as he was called to be put 

 out. Seeing that my men evidently thought that 

 this would be a matter of some difficulty, and having 

 a great stout underkeeper, whom I thought too big to 

 be a high-plucked man (for I have often noticed that 

 Providence is inclined to make things even, by giving 

 the most courage to the smallest size, of course with 

 some exceptions), I resolved to try this servant at 

 the vagrant, as men run terriers at a badger. Not 

 choosing however to rely on the report of my keeper, 

 I told my tall under-man to be near, and I myself 

 Avent into the pit to see the " rum customer." The 

 willows and bushes were very thick, so I could not 

 make out more than that there was a man lying 

 down. "Hey, my man," I said, "you must not 

 stay here ; come, get up and be off." "Humph," 

 replied a gruffish voice, " that's easier said than 

 done." Angry at what I took for an insolent reply, 

 and forgetting that I intended to try my underkeeper, 



