CHAPTER XL 



THE HEDGEHOG A GAME EATER. 



EW game preservers and shooting men 

 really know or are aware of the 

 hardships of a keeper's life that 

 is, if he is a conscientious and honest 

 one. They are, I admit, difficult to be found, 

 but still they are to be had. Many lose their 

 lives, as the public journals will testify, and 

 will charge boldly and unhesitatingly into a 

 band of poachers, get knocked on the head, or 

 shot down, as the case may be ; but such men 

 have not always been alive to their employer's 

 interests at least, they have been alive to their 

 own as well. I do not for one instant mean to 

 say this is the case with all, far from it. I 

 know many who have the greatest trust and 



