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lion, to a man who is not flri<ftly honeil and 

 induftrious, too powerful to be wkhftood. 



For a while he p-oes on in lecurlty : but his 

 ways and his haunts being at length dilcover- 

 ed, he is taken ; and, if not knocked on the 

 head in his fciiffle wnth the keepers; fent to 

 gaol. 



Having lain here his wonted time, he Tallies 

 forth again, not only a more defperate poacher, 

 but an incorrigible rogue, fit for any thing. 



Having been two or three times taken, and 

 having lain upon the whole, perhaps, twelve 

 months in gaol ; having learnt to live by night, 

 and to idle and lleep away the day •, he cannot 

 reverfe his way of life; and he is become too 

 notorious to carry on, any longer, his trade 

 of poaching. 



His cafe now becomes defperate ; and if he 

 is not fortunate enough to get into a gang of 

 fmugglers, he takes, of courfe, to houfe- 

 breaking, or feme other high-way to the gal- 

 lows. 



Nor is this the fum of mifchief : — A gentle- 

 man who preferves an inordinate quantity of 

 game upon his eftate, is, in the nature of things, 

 perpetually in hot water, with the yeomanry and 

 N 2 mipor 



