274 SHOOTING-RIGHTS OF 



freeholder is a gamekeeper. " What the 

 d— 1 ? " 



Let me explain. England is practically 

 the only European country where the 

 small freeholder has any sporting rights. 

 In Germany no owner of less than two 

 hundred acres has ; in Austria it is one 

 hundred and fifteen acres ; in France, eighty 

 acres. France is a bad country to imitate 

 in other respects, as far as game laws are 

 concerned. Let us take Austria, with the 

 proviso that as far as the general law goes 

 that of Germany is similar. Here the 

 land must be in one parish [gemeinde), or, 

 if in two, then contiguous. If divided by 

 a highway or river, the divided halves 

 must in some degree face one another, so 

 that a man could not say, " I've got thirty 

 acres here, and the rest five miles down 



