44 AN ENGLISH GAMEKEEPER. 



related the whole story to his wife, my sister, 

 and she said that she was sure that my 

 suspicions were correct. "You know, John," 

 said she, C I was ill and upstairs at the time, and 

 the nurse brought me lamb for dinner, lamb for 

 supper, and lamb again next day. It was 

 nothing but lamb, lamb, lamb, 'till I sent for 

 Edward, and asked him what all this lamb 

 meant. I said : * Are you feeding me on my 

 brother John's dogs' meat ? Jt must be some 

 dead lamb John has got for his dogs.' But 

 he declared to me that it was not, saying that 

 you did not know he had bought any lamb. 

 * Well, Edward,' said I, ' this lamb was never 

 killed by a butcher, or it wouldn't be hacked 

 about so ; besides, you would never buy all 

 this quantity at one time. It must be meat 

 youVe had from John's dogs, and I won't 

 touch any more of it.' Then he boiled it up, 

 and fed his dog and pigs on the remainder." 



My sister asked me not to say anything to 

 Humphries, stating that, as soon as they arrived 

 in Australia, she would talk to him about it. 



I never heard any more about the subject 



