i86 POOR PUSSY! 



knows what he is about, and certainly a 

 farmer does. But the law, forsooth, steps 

 in and says to those two men, *'You are 

 neither more nor less than children, and 

 incapable of managing your own affairs. 

 You (to the landowner) are such an ass 

 that you keep up such an absurd head of 

 game that no farmer will take, or stay on, 

 your farms ; and you (to the farmer) are 

 such a fool that you will actually rent, or 

 remain on a farm on which the stock of 

 ground game is so excessive as to eat up 

 all your profits. Therefore it is necessary 

 for me to step in and put matters right." 

 Will anybody maintain that if a circular to 

 this effect had been sent to all the land- 

 owners and farmers in England they would 

 not have resented it ? Now we can only 

 resent the effects of the Act, and this we 



