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POOR PUSSY! 



I "HERE are few more painful spectacles 

 than the British public In one of Its 

 periodical fits of wrong-headedness. It must 

 be admitted that It was during one of these 

 that, the Ground Game Act was placed on 

 the Statute Book. 



When we consider this Act, not for the 

 moment by the light of Its working, but 

 calmly and dispassionately by Its contents 

 alone, nothing, I think, strikes us so forcibly 

 as its utter tyranny. As a rule, a landowner 



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