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wouldn't be "in it." But I didn't mean to write 

 of sheep. Revenons a NOS mouions. 



Whether or not the Highlands of Scotland would 

 be benefited by turning the Southron out en masse, 

 will be discovered when the experiment is tried. 

 Meanwhile let me observe : In the forests with which 

 I am acquainted, the landlords, non-resident of course, 

 as in the beautiful island of Ireland, seldom, if ever, 

 go near the place. The shooting tenants look after 

 the old and infirm, the poor and the sick (I have 

 known medical men brought from a great distance 

 and at great expense in urgent cases), and subscribe 

 to local charities. The great event of the year, looked 

 forward to with the keenest delight, is the arrival of 

 the family at the lodge ; their departure at the end 

 of the season is anticipated with grief and anxiety, 

 the termination of the lease with feelings of absolute 

 dismay. Are deer-stalkers quite as black as they are 

 painted 1 



AVhen the right honourable gentleman, having 

 floored the sole remaining tree in Hawarden Park, 

 has distributed his last birthday chips to the ad- 

 miring spectators, and the metropolitan police have 

 discovered the perpetrators of the outrage at " The 

 Fishery " ; when Mr Anderson has won the " Derby 

 Handicap" at the Gun Club, and the deceased wife's 

 sister is made an honest woman of ; when the " un- 

 fortunate nobleman languishing in prison," having 



