SUNDAY WORK. 



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A WICKED LURCHER AND HIS MASTER. 



Sunday is the gamekeeper's worst day ; the idle, rough 

 characters from the adjacent town pour out into the 

 country, and necessitate extra watchfulness. On Sunday, 

 the keeper, out of respect to the day, does not indeed 

 carry his gun, but he works yet harder than on week-days. 

 While the chimes are ringing to church he is on foot by 

 the edge of the preserves. He has to maintain a sort of 

 surveillance over the beer-houses in the village, which is 



