324 AN ENGLISH GAMEKEEPER. 



that you were too good a judge to let Wilkins 

 know. Now, you can just pack up your traps 

 and go. I had recommended you, as keeper, 

 for a place that will fall vacant in about three 

 weeks' time, the salary being a pound a week, 

 but now you may go and do the best you can 

 for yourself, for yoii are the man who set those 

 snares in Murrell's Wood." 



So Humphries digged a pit for poor old 

 Watts, and fell in it himself. 



