202 AN ENGLISH GAMEKEEPER. 



likely you may hear that old Pat Lane brought 

 a hare to someone's shop to sell. What 

 then ? the hare was dead, and you won't 

 bring it back to life again, or replace it in 

 your cover, so how are you better off for know- 

 ing that Pat took the hare to Tom Tills, the 

 fishmonger, to try and sell last week. " Why," 

 say you, " I shall keep a sharp look-out for 

 him." Yes, at the '' Red Cow" public-house 

 I suppose, that is the last place in the world to 

 catch a poacher snaring hares, he is much 

 more likely to snare you, my boy, for many a 

 keeper has been snared at public-houses, and 

 the snare drawn so tight as to nearly choke 

 him to death. Not only himself, but his poor 

 wife and children as well have been nearly 

 starved to death by this useless "public-house" 

 dodge of obtaining information. You will get 

 more information by practically attending to 

 your night duties, than you can ever hope to 

 obtain by loafing about in a public-house; there, 

 you will only get a quantity of bogus " tips" 

 and bad drinks, offered on purpose to keep you 

 out of the way, and throw you off the scent. 



