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perhaps one probably at the bread, returnincr 

 to their miferablc cottage laden with the plun- 

 der obtained from dead hedges, and confu- 

 ming that tinne in pitiful pilfering, which, if 

 honeftly and induftrioufly employed, would 

 proci^ire them a comfortable fubfiftence ! In 

 vain doe^i the law threaten punifhmenr, or the 

 farmer caufe it to be infiided — a clamour is 

 raifed againfb him for cruelty : the depredators 

 are feldom deterred, but proceed gradually to 

 higher crimes unul they finifh their career ia 

 public, or by good fortune pafs the remain- 

 der of their lives at a diftance from Europe, 



If for the firfl two or three years after plafh- 

 ing the field is ploughed, the hedge will thrive 

 much the better for it. 



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