246 AN ENGLISH GAMEKEEPER. 



Duckey Phillips turned Queen's Evidence, 

 and so was let off, but the other five men were 

 all found guilty. In sentencing them the 

 judge said : — " Jones, as you showed mercy to 

 the keeper, and stopped the rest from doing 

 violence to him — probably murdering him — 

 thus saving his life, I shall show mercy towards 

 you ; the sentence of the Court is that you be 

 imprisoned for six calendar months with hard 

 labour. You, Boys, who took no action either 

 way, to stop the fight or to encourage it, are 

 sentenced to twelve calendar months' imprison- 

 ment with hard labour. As for you, Thomas 

 Newman, George Newman, and Thomas 

 Curtis, the sentence of the Court is that you 

 serve five years penal servitude." 



Duckey, the most rotten scamp of the lot, 

 got off scot-free, and came to see me two or 

 three days afterwards. Jones came to see me 

 the day after he got out of gaol, and Jemmy 

 Boys paid me a visit two days after his twelve 

 months were up ; he brought me a trap of 

 mine that he had stolen one night when out 

 poaching on my land. The two Newmans 



