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MY MOOR 



A /T Y moor is not in Scotland, nor yet In 

 Yorkshire, nor even In Wales. Nor 

 Is It a " Tommlebeg" — much rent and little 

 game — for, as a matter of fact, I don't pay 

 any rent at all for It. I wish I did, as will 

 appear hereafter. Nor Is It a grouse moor, 

 though It may once have been. There are 

 not even black game on It, though old men 

 have told me they shot them there In their 

 youth, say seventy or eighty years ago, for 

 1 speak of men who were old when I was a 



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