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grave now often asked did ye evir compsate me 

 for me hens an' the answer no, it trobbled her 

 very much as it is she who brings me the breed 

 an' they are not ornery hens so I trust you will 

 give me beyond the ornery rates of comensation." 



Mrs. John . 



P.S. — Hoping you will be kind enough to attend 

 to me and my wants." 



Another writes to say that she will have no more 



of it. " Didn't Mr. , the M.F.H., cause her 



the loss of sixteen geese killed by him." Later on 

 she remarks that " foxes they are continually 

 here, or persued by neighbours." 



The keeper of the country replied courteously 

 that perhaps dogs and not the Master of the Fox- 

 Hounds accounted for her sixteen geese. 



Another spells well. 



" I'm destroyed entirely by your foxes. Since 

 November up to the pressent day i- hins 2. guise, 

 an' three doocks. an' gazelings. 5 ! ! " 



Some of them write angrily, as one lady who 

 remarking that she had been paid no attention to 

 goes on to say that the " geneelmen of County 

 Hunt Club cannot blame her for to take another 

 coarse, for I will not feed these vermine of the 

 woods for the pleasure of any. An' so if not 

 comensated will give the cubs a safe covert for the 

 season where no horn will disturb their rest." 

 A certain old lady who lives near a gorse here 



