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calls ' leathering ' a poacher with a good tough ground-ash 

 stick. He gets the opportunity now and then, coming 

 unexpectedly on a couple of fellows rabbiting in a ditch, 

 and he recounts the ' leathering ' he has frequently ad- 



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ministered with great gusto. He will even honestly admit 

 that on one occasion — just one, not more — he got himself 

 most thoroughly thrashed by a pair of hulking fellows. 

 * Some keepers,' he says, ' are always summoning 



