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leave from Farmer A. and Farmer B. to 

 shoot on their farms/' 



I have heard that sportsmen have had 

 their dogs shot. There is a very heavy 

 penalty for shooting a qualified man*s dog*. 

 But I swear, by heaven, that, hovrever 

 heavy the penalty may be, that would not 

 satisfy me ; for that, I would instantly 

 shoot his horse, and stand prepared with 

 the other barrel to defend my own person ; 

 and I always go prepared with a few bul- 

 lets sewed up in greased linen : a ball is 

 quickly rammed down ; and a patched, 

 greased ball will shoot pretty near as true 

 as a rifle, to the distance of seventy or 

 eighty yards, if not to one hundred. 



But to return to my friends the farmers. 

 A farmer has a valuable mastiff dog, which 

 protects his premises by night, and is a safe- 

 guard to his person by day: he walks 



* And there is a more heavy action against the 

 master of that keeper, provided he sanctions that un- 

 warrantable act : this action is called The Statute of 

 Powder and Ball at about twelve paces! 



