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shall." " Smart for what, my good fellow ?" I 

 replied quietly. "For what indeed! Have'nt you 

 just bin in this here Presarve, a shooting at his 

 Lordship's Pheasants ? I should like to know." 

 Did you see us in his Lordship's Preserve ?" 

 " Can't say I hactually saw ye, but I heard ye, 

 plain enough." 



" Now, sir, mind what you are about. If you 

 say much more, and don't keep a civil tongue in 

 your head, I'll summon you before a magistrate 

 for abusive language, and a libellous charge. 

 You hear shots in this covert. After the lapse 

 of some time, you rush up in hot haste ; and 

 because the first two men you meet in the high 

 road happen to be carrying a gun, you accuse 

 them in a rough, rude way, of trespassing in 

 your Master's Preserve. How do you know, 

 while wasting your time here, the very fellow, 

 whose gun you heard, is not lying hid not far 

 from where we are, and laughing at you ? When 

 you next meet two harmless persons walking on 

 the road, be a little more cautious what you say 



