SPORTSMEN, FARMERS, 8CC. lUl 



the coaches, but by far the greater part 

 not. 



I am informed that warreners are pro^^ 

 hibited setting traps between sun-rise and 

 sun-set : I shall make myself well ac- 

 quainted with this law, and, if there be 

 such an one, I will make the first offender 

 appear before our sovereign lord the King-, 

 at Westminster, to answer for his non-ob- 

 servance of such law. When I have leave 

 to shoot on a manor, I have a right to 

 shoot on the warren also. Is it not scan- 

 dalous that I should run the risk of having 

 a valuable pointer lamed for ever, by being- 

 caught in one of those infernal warrener's 

 traps ? 



I have twice in my life found pieces of 

 flesh hung upon sticks in warrens : I sus- 

 pect the flesh was poisoned : I threw the 

 flesh into the first v>^ater I came to : but 

 the next I find I will take to a chemist and 

 have it analysed ; when I will severely punish 

 such infamous offenders. What! am I, a 

 qualifled man, having leave to sport on a 

 manor, to be subjected to the risk of having 

 my dogs poisoned, vv^hen I drive game 



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