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furze faggot, which heats her oven, and 

 supplies her with excellent ashes for her lie. 

 During the height of agricultural prosperity, 

 it was principally sown as a cover for game, 

 for which it is admirably adapted ; and it is 

 with great pleasure we see it employed for this 

 purpose in poor lands, as we are no less an 

 advocate for the increase and preservation of 

 game, than we are desirous to see the game 

 laws new modelled and justly administered; 

 for surely what a gentleman rears with ex- 

 pence, and preserves with care on his own 

 estates, ought to be as decidedly his own as 

 the deer in his park, or the poultry in his 

 yard. But at present it is his to shoot, but 

 not his to dispose of; he dares not send it to 

 the open market to benefit himself, or to gra- 

 tify the public, who do, and ever will, esteem it 

 hard that laws should forbid them to eat such 

 wholesome food as they have a desire for, and 

 money to purchase. We admit that a quali- 

 fied person is allowed to make presents of 

 game, but we cannot ask our licensed friends 

 for a brace of birds without giving them the 

 idea that we think ourselves neglected ; and 

 few would wish to give, or conceive such an 

 idea. 



It is not long since the physicians of Paris 

 forbad a most interesting invalid of our family 



