CONCERNING GAME AND THINGS. 2OI 



If I had not gone to Stanstead, Mr. Fowle 

 told me that he should have sent me to Salis- 

 bury Plain as keeper, to take charge of all his 

 men and keep his accounts, at his place there. 



Another thing that keepers often neglect to 

 do is to keep their hares out of the poacher's 

 pockets, and this is either through ignorance or 

 laziness, because they do not sufficiently look 

 after their gates, to see that they are not 

 netted, and their hedges, to see that they are 

 not snared. One simple way of attending to 

 this, is to look more after the hares of an 

 evening and even at night-time, and spend 

 fewer hours at the public-house. I am afraid 

 that this remark of mine about the public- 

 house will not be relished by many, and 

 repudiated by most keepers, but, although it's 

 a dirty bird that fouls its own nest, I am speak- 

 ing to all keepers, and at the risk of giving 

 offence, I shall let the remark stand. 



I have heard keepers say that they can 

 learn more in an hour at a public-house, than 

 they can in a week by stopping at home. 

 Now this is a lie that is half the truth. Very 



