MONK'S CONVERSION. 355 



Monk used to come and visit me two or 

 three times a year ; he would arrive early on 

 Sunday morning, have breakfast, go to chapel 

 with me after breakfast, come back and have 

 some dinner, after dinner a pipe, put a rabbit 

 in each pocket, and so off to home at Broxtead. 

 Whenever he was hard up I would lend him 

 money, and he always paid me back as if he 

 had been the clergyman of the parish. At the 

 time I write this he is still living at Broxtead. 



I have chosen Monk's case as a typical one 

 of the way in which I always treated poachers, 

 and you will gather from it that a great deal 

 depends upon a keeper's manner towards those 

 gentry. Now I don't suppose that any keeper 

 in the three kingdoms has had more experience 

 than I have in the handling of poachers. I 

 write the next chapter in the hope that all 

 keepers will take my advice, and profit by it. 



