316 LEX TALIONIS. 



prevented them from pursuing a favourite 

 amusement, loaded a cart with spaniels, and 

 went all together and destroyed his pheasants. 

 I think they might have called this, very pro- 

 perly, lex talionis ; and it had the desired 

 effect ; for as the gentleman did not think it 

 prudent to fight them all, he took the wiser 

 method,- — he made peace with them. He gave 

 an order that no more foxes should be destroy- 

 ed, and they never afterwards killed any of 

 his pheasants. 



