DEER-STALKING. 



bryce's bill. 



I HAVE alluded, in my remarks on covert shoot- 

 ing, to the spiteful character of the recently- 

 passed " Ground Game " or ** Hares and Rabbits 

 Act," which was known before it passed, and has 

 proved since its passing, to be of no real benefit 

 whatever to tenant farmers, although very injurious 

 in the interests of landowners. But that Act had 

 at all events the pretence of being introduced in 

 the interest of the tenant farmers, and anyhow there 

 was a clear motive — political though it was — on 

 the part of Government in passing it, viz., the 

 placing the tenant farmer under an obligation to 

 the Government by their gift to him of certain 



