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of our poorer brethren, and lead, I fear, to 

 a contrary result ? Nor will it tend to reconcile 

 the minds of the latter to the harshness they 

 think they are treated with, when they see 

 and hear in every direction, of the more 

 favoured classes slaughtering game to such an 

 extent, as would have seemed fabulous to a 

 bye-gone generation; and on the pleasant 

 banks of the rivers they once frequented in 

 happier days, that none are permitted to wield 

 a rod now, save the members of the like 

 exceptional class. 



What can be (I was going to say) more 

 ludicrous, than to read glowing paragraphs 

 in the papers, how Sir Harry Lackland, Lord 

 Broadacres, arid Caleb Cottonbags, Esq., 

 knocked over so many hundred birds in so 

 many hours, as though they had done some- 

 thing highly meritorious, or conferred a great 

 boon upon the human race ; instead of merely 

 holding their guns straight, and committing 

 such wholesale butchery? 



