PAET IV. 



LIFE OF THE EAT-CATCHEE. 



TTTHIS work will not be complete if I do not 

 deal with the Eat-catcher's life. The pro- 

 fession is a peculiar and exciting one, but all 

 right if pursued in the right way. Although 

 the calling takes one into dirty and obnoxious 

 places, there is no reason why the Eat-catcher 

 should not always appear respectable. The 

 Eat-catcher has many temptations to dishonest 

 conduct, for instance, w r hen Eat-catching on a 

 farm or private estate where there are numerous 

 rabbits and game. It looks rather hard lines 

 for the Eat-catcher to come off a farm with 

 his cage full of Eats and see rabbits running 

 about whilst he has all the requisites in 

 his possession for catching them ; and yet he 

 must not touch one, but go home and merely 

 reflect on what a good Sunday's dinner he 

 is leaving behind. This I have experienced 

 many a time, but I have always found even 

 from the business view-point that the old 



