CHAPTER VIII. 



POACHING AGAIN. 



WHERE keeper and poacher are brought 

 face to face, it is always the former's best 

 plan to treat the latter with civility, old Dick's 

 great desideratum. Treat poachers as you 

 would like to be treated yourself, if you 

 happened to be in their position, whether you 

 catch them pheasant shooting at night, or 

 gate-netting by day, or poaching in any other 

 way. Treat them as if they were men, and 

 not wild beasts, for as you treat them so they 

 will treat you, to a great extent. 



If you hear them in the wood at night 

 shooting, don't hide up behind a tree that you 



