SLINKING AWAY. 



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THE POACHER. 



and silently as possible to one side, and often has the 

 pleasure to see them pass right over the spot where only 

 recently he was lying. 



Therefore, although a wood is much more beautiful 

 from an artistic point of view, with its lovely greens in 

 spring and yellow and browns in autumn, its shades and 

 recesses and fern-strewn glades, yet if a gentleman desires 

 to imitate the monarch who laid out the New Forest and 



