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by law the owners of coverts can allow 

 whom they please to hunt them ; if, there- 

 fore, the boundary of a country is not held 

 sacred, it is impossible to say what will be 

 the consequence, or how it will end. I 

 mention this subject of course in a way 

 which I hope will not be thought offensive 

 or personal towards any one; I have no 

 motive but to give you my observations and 

 opinion formed from experience. 



I remember an anecdote related of a 

 friend of mine and his neighbour, not many 

 miles from Blandford, in Dorsetshire, which 

 happened some years ago, both parties, alas ! 

 are now gone to that bourne from whence 

 no traveller returns. My friend was fond 

 of shooting, and had a tolerable domain, 

 and preserved strictly ; his neighbour also 

 was partial to the trigger, his property was 

 the most extensive, he therefore had less 

 excuse for sporting on that of another, 

 One day, after my friend returned from 



