PRINCE £r- PEASANT, PEER &' PHEASANT 119 



everything betokened neglect and poverty, where a 

 totally differentconditionofthingsshould have reigned. 

 I would undertake that under an owner with liberal 

 ideas of game preserving up to date, seconded by an 

 intelligent keeper, this very estate should command 

 in three or four years' time a higher value in game 

 than it has produced during this century in agricul- 

 ture. I will make bold to say that a man who rears 

 pheasants by the thousand is a benefactor to the 

 community at large, far more so than the pothouse 

 agitator who abuses him, and who is only to be 

 finally silenced by being elected to a seat in a 

 Parliament where he is completely outclassed. 



The best allies to the cause of British sports and 

 recreations, and of game preserving in particular, are 

 largely those of whom Britain has most reason to be 

 proud ; those who by their energy and industry in 

 various walks of life at home or in our colonies and 

 foreign lands have, while raising themselves, contri- 

 buted to maintain the high standard which marks the 

 progress of a great nation. 



The man who wins his way to the top in trade or 

 finance at home, or whose name commands respect 

 in law or medicine, art or mechanics, no less than 

 the pioneer of mining, exploration or military glory 

 all over the world, the working brain which develops 



