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to find 'em. Then put the rest in your 

 gawrden. Nex' day put down the wires, 

 on your own land, mind, and look out 

 nobody sees you take 'em up. I'll be 'ere 

 agin Monday." Very likely the keeper 

 fences In the covert ; but the netting is 

 always getting trodden down. " I dunno 

 anythink about It," says A. B., who Is fast 

 becoming a professional poacher. Even if 

 it isn't, I need not tell the reader pheasants 

 w^ill stray, even over netting. There Is 

 only one thing to be done. Every attempt 

 is made to keep the birds away from that 

 part of the wood. The keepers are always 

 running dogs over It, or sending old women 

 to gather dead wood. Perhaps the desired 

 result is obtained ; but Squire C. loses the 

 shootinor of a score of acres because A. B. 

 has that of a half one. What does the 



