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SHOOTING-RIGHTS OF SMALL 

 FREEHOLDERS 



^ H E question, from a sportsman's point 



of view, of the shooting-rights of 

 small freeholders is not equally burning in 

 all parts of England. In my old west- 

 country home it is, and I believe it is so 

 in Wales, while in the eastern counties 

 it hardly enters into the list of game pre- 

 server's unpleasantnesses. Still, I take it, 

 it would be difficult to find many parishes 

 in England and Wales where there are not 



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