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judgment for my meanness." He was a rare fox 

 preserver was the old man, and the best of neigh- 

 bours ; and it is a pity that some of those gentry 

 of whom I have been writing do not meet with 

 a similar experience, and so, like him, become 

 converted. 



The surly man, wrapped up in his own selfish 

 interests, who says he won't preserve foxes, you 

 know how to use. The man who has always a 

 specious excuse, who can never account for his 

 coverts being drawn blank, and who lies from 

 " night till morn, from morn till dewy eve," when 

 foxes are the subject of conversation, is more 

 difficult of treatment. Sooner or later, however, 

 you will find him out lying, and then you should 

 know what to do with him without telling, no 

 matter what his station. 



