MINE HOST AND FRIEND BALDWIN. 211 



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

 can in a week by attending your covers? If so, 

 my boy, I say that you are not much of a 

 keeper except a public-house keeper, and I 

 should strongly advise you to leave off game- 

 keepering and take the " Red Cow" at once, 

 for you are more fit to be a publican than a 

 gamekeeper. The proper place for a keeper 

 is to attend to his duties and prevent poaching 

 in his covers, and not in the public-house, 

 and this I cannot repeat too often. 



