CHAPTER VII. 



MINE HOST AND FRIEND BALDWIN. 



IN the year 1843, when I first went to Stan- 

 stead from Wiltshire, my neighbour, whom 

 I will call one Jones, had reached there the 

 week previously. I arrived on the 25th March, 

 and he got there on the i8th. He had 

 previously been living near Thetford in 

 Norfolk. 



We used to join forces at night-time and 

 help each other at first, as his woods were 

 adjacent to mine at Birchanger village. Jones 

 was keeper, to Mr. Fred Nash, of Bishop's 

 Stortford, and a very good keeper he was, and 

 did well for some years, always having plenty 



