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into their hen house and help himself? They 

 would be as loud in their condemnation of him 

 as the game preserver is of the poacher ; they 

 would "imprison a man" and "tear him away 

 from his family," without remorse ; if he had pur- 

 loined a nice lot of chickens they intended as side 

 dishes at their tables, or the turkey they saw, in pro- 

 spectu, at the head of it ; they have fed these, 

 so has the landowner fed the game, both have 

 an equal right to the property, but not the one 

 more than the other. 



But, argue these preservers of chickens but 

 non-preservers of game, it is in many instances 

 the lord of the manor or head landowner who 

 preserves the game, while the farmer, or in 

 other words the under-tenant, feeds them. It is 

 so in many cases, but the farmer knows on 

 taking his farm that the game from the adjacent 

 property, and also that bred on the farm he 

 is anxious to take, will feed partly on that 



farm ; he calculates his loss by them, and takes 

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