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without any of the human sporting instincts ? 

 I have never found him so. He has always 

 appeared to me to be a man who had no 

 mercenary motives, for, if questioned, he will tell 

 you that poaching found him poor and kept 

 him so. It is a love of sport and adventure 

 that makes a man a poacher. He is generally 



POACHER WITH NET SET FOR HARE. 



a lover and keen student of nature in all her 

 varying forms. He has a keen eye to note 



