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the "tip" which they look to receiving after 

 a successful day s sport. Generally speaking, 

 they take a proper and honest pride in 

 showing a good head of game, furred and 

 feathered, to their master and his guests. 

 What can be more disheartening to a man 

 who feels like this, than to be obliged to run 

 spaniels through his coverts and disturb some 

 scores of pheasants, for one or two guns who 

 cannot possibly get shots at one-half of them, 

 and who very likely don't bag one -fifth? 

 No ; the coverts par excellence should be a 

 sanctuary until that winter morning, when, 

 with his guns scientifically posted, and his 

 stops at their places, the keeper enters them 

 with his smock-frocked myrmidons, to send 

 the feathered citizens exactly where they 

 ought to go. 



But we can't be always hunting (don't 



