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across his fields to see a friend ; the dog 

 with him : this dog cannot hunt, nor even 

 disturb game ; but a hare, disturbed by 

 some other person, runs past him ; — the 

 dog will naturally follow the hare to the 

 wood : he returns poisoned ! This farmer 

 shall have two valuable sheep-dogs, which 

 are absolutely necessary to him in his line 

 of business ; the same may happen to those 

 sheep-dogs. Now, what a time it will take 

 to breed up and tutor two such dogs; and 

 what a time it must take before this injury 

 can be repaired. Is not the mastiff of infi- 

 nite value and use, also, to his master? — I 

 am sick of writing so much respecting such 

 inhuman persecutors and annoy ers of the 

 happiness of society : away with such 

 wretches ; no more concerning them. 



I shall now proceed in respect to war- 

 reners. To these fellows I will shew no 

 indulgence, for they deserve none. War- 

 reners are the most notorious poachers and 

 destroyers of game ; and, from their line 

 of business, they have such advantages, and 

 are so situated, that it is scarcely possible 

 to fmd them out. How^ many hares, par- 



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