152 ROUND THE BOUNDARIES 



hunt, indeed, some of us), or golfing, or even 

 smoking. Some days there are when we 

 feel we must " o-q and kill something." 

 Then we wander out to the eun-room 

 after breakfast, and tell the keeper we will 

 "just take a turn round the boundaries." 

 W hereby we get him on the soft place. 

 The boundaries, especially in a small 

 shooting, are ever a sore point with him. 

 He has a deadly hatred (veiled in a 

 thoroughly Christian but somewhat patron- 

 ising manner) and contempt for the keeper 

 adjoining. He even suspects him of that 

 exceedingly unsportsmanlike device, putting 

 down a " cage " in a boundary woodland. 

 He knows him to be guilty of raisins, and 

 he even resents the (quite legal) appearance 

 of the other's spaniels on his side of the 

 boundary fence. He believes the other 



