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plans are always laid long ahead. The way 

 there, and the way back by a different route, 

 is arranged away from all main roads. 



One guardian of the coverts in this district 

 had a pure white pheasant that roosted in a 

 tree close to his house. White pheasants, or 

 nearly such, are to be met with in most large 

 coverts, but this particular bird had chosen 

 the near neighbourhood of the keeper's house 

 for resting at night. 



After a visit from one of the gangs men- 

 tioned, this gamekeeper made the remark that 

 no one would be able to get his white bird 

 at night without his knowing it ; in fact, he 

 aired this bit of information considerably. In 

 less than a week that pheasant was shot from its 

 perch ; the keeper heard the shot, but never saw 

 the man that fired it. The barefaced audacity 

 of the act was the safeguard of the culprit. 



Old cottages that have not been improved 

 are to be seen as you pass along. Some of 

 the houses that in past years, by the look of 

 them, had been occupied by yeomen of a 

 substantial class, are now tenanted by a very 

 different class of people, who use them as 

 summer residences. If they are four or five 

 miles from a railway station they soon let. 



