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the nests of both snipe and woodcock. Referring 

 again to the Honourable Grantley Berkeley, he 

 said the simple rustics wondered, at him and his 

 ways ; his influence over birds and animals ap- 

 peared to them little short of magic. They said 

 "outlandish things follered him about; they seed 

 wild creatures come and feed out of his hand." 



His power with them was truly marvellous. I 

 will not say that because a man loves all wild things 

 he comes up to the Exeter Hall standard of a good 

 man ; but this I do aver, that a man who loves the 

 beings created to take their place in the same world 

 with himself, cannot be a bad one. A most kind 

 and considerate man Grantley Berkeley was; and 

 as a sportsman and naturalist, second to none ; he 

 claimed the respect and admiration of all who knew 

 him. He, too, has drifted away, beyond our ken. 



Some day we trust a still brighter light will shine 

 on the true relation that the dumb creatures as 

 canting ignorance has styled them bear to the 

 so-called lords of creation ; brutes we might often 

 more fitly style these latter. 



