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tridges, and pheasants, have I, in my Hfe- 

 time, shot near to warrens, which had lost 

 one foot *. 



A warren is a most destructive thing to 

 a manor. A gamekeeper, last season, told 

 me, having an order to send a basket of 

 game to London, he shot four brace of 

 partridges, and two brace of pheasants; 

 two of the pheasants and three of the par- 

 tridges had but one foot. A warrener, who 

 follows his business correctly, sets his traps 

 at the mouth of the rabbit-holes ; but, 

 when they set traps in the paths across the 

 warrens, which is called trapping high, it 

 can be done for no other purpose than to 

 catch hares, going across in those paths. 

 I am surprised that gentlemen do not have 

 all the rabbit - vans and higlers' carts 

 searched ; they carry quantities of game to 

 London. The lord-mayor, a very few 

 years ago, searched all the poulterers' shops 

 in Leadenhall-market, and found cart-loads 

 of game. It is true some game comes by 



* I have frequently found hares lying near to war- 

 rens, which have had only three legs. 



