108 FROM SPRING TO FALL. 



omons would find out who purchases contraband 

 game, they would be in a fair way to finding 

 measures for stopping it. It is not the poor fel- 

 low who gets a brace of rabbits to feed his hungry 

 children with who is the real poacher ; but I do 

 not like to dwell on this question. 



Game can, however, only be preserved at a high 

 price, and there is a much wider view to be taken 

 of the subject. No matter what the sport may 

 be, — hunting, shooting, or fishing, — it is the means 

 of distributing money and of employing a vast num- 

 ber of people. If all the keepers and their assist- 

 ants could be brought together from all parts of 

 the United Kingdom, they would form quite an 

 army of sharpshooters. 



At one time, when large quantities of game were 

 preserved, matters were carried with rather a 

 high hand, bordering indeed on the feudal system ; 

 but that is a thing of the past — it would be simply 

 impossible in the present day. 



I know well some out-of-the-way places where 

 the people are still from their very nature lawlessly 

 inclined, because they are the descendants of a wild 

 nomadic people. Charles Kingsley, when he wrote 



