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mer fay, it coll him five pounds, one fummer, 

 to guard eight acres of wheat. It is a remark 

 among forefters, that all the deer-kind are 

 particularly offended by difagreeable fmells. 

 The farmer therefore commonly fmears the 

 ropes with tar, which he fets up as fences ; 

 and throws fetid fubftances into his nightly 

 fires, to dilTeminate the odour in the fmoak. 



We need not wonder if fuch depredations 

 provoke adls of violence. Tho prote(5ted by 

 law, thefe atrocious marauders very often, and 

 defervedly, fuffer death for their offences. 



A farmer however, not long ago, paid dear 

 for taking the adminiftration of juftice into 

 his own hands, on an occafion of this kind. 

 He had frequently lamented the depredations 

 on his corn ; and being at all events determined 

 to retaliate, he narrowly obferved his fields ; 

 and having found the tradt, along which the 

 nightly plunderer advanced, he took his ftation 

 near it, as evening drew on, with a rifled barrel 



well loaden. After much liftening, and 



many little alarms, he at laft heard the bulhes 

 crackling, and giving way in earneft. He 

 now made himfelf fure of his prey -, and lying 

 clofe, he levelled his piece, fo as juft to take 

 the ftag, as he emerged from the thicket. 



The 



