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 ROUND THE BOUNDARIES 



A GOOD many owners and tenants of 

 shootings are, It must be confessed, 

 bond slaves to their gamekeepers. But even 

 amongst those of us that are not, there must 

 exist some natural sympathy for the feelings 

 of "Velveteens." I take it that there Is no 

 way more calculated to outrage these than 

 by disturbing the coverts between the end, 

 say, of October and the first " shoot " of the 

 season. Keepers are not, though they are 

 so often depicted, men whose only idea is 



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