gt> COLONEL HANGER TO 



they will lie quiet, and not be inclined to 

 ramble. 



It is sorely as necessary to know how to 

 preserve them from all sorts of poachers, as 

 to breed them. I believe that desperate 

 gang of night-shooters, who several years 

 past so infested Norfolk, and absolutely, for 

 a time, defied even an armed force opposed 

 to them, is totally broken up. Several 

 of them, I am told, have been transported, 

 and some hanged; for when game grows 

 scarce, and, in the breeding time, when they 

 cannot sell the game, it not being fit to eat, 

 being idle fellows, and averse to labour, 

 they must then turn their abilities to some- 

 thing else, such as sheep and horse stealing; 

 and, from one thing to another, they im- 

 prove so much, as even often to take to 

 house-breaking. In this occupation they 

 are sure to be found out, as dispose of the 

 goods they must; this, to a certaint}^, either 

 hangs or transports them in due time. 

 <>t taking There is a very destructive method of 



night'andby taking plicasauts by night, which is by 

 means of a brimstone rag, lighted, and held 

 .under the pheasants, when on the trees at 



