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"vfhen urged to re-ftock IFaUh urn ■chafe'", refufed, from a motive 
worthy of a prelate, replying that " it had done mifchief enough 
" already." 
Our old race of deer-ftealers are hardly cxtin6l yet : it was but 
a little while ago that> over thsir ale, they ufed to recount the ex- 
ploits of their youth; fuch as 'matching the pregnant hind to her 
lair, and, when the calf was dropped, paring it's feet with a penknife 
to the quick to prevent it's efcape, till it was large and fat enough 
to be killed ; the {hooting at one of their neighbours vvidi a bullet 
in a turnip-field by moonlhine, miftaking him for a deer ; and the 
lofing a dog in the following extraordinary manner: — Some fellows, 
fufpedlng that a calf new-fallen was depohted in a certain fpot of 
thick fern, went, with a lurcher, to furprife it ; when the parent- 
hind rulhed out of the brake, and, taking a vaft fpring with all 
her feet clofe together, pitched upon the neck of the dog, and 
broke it fhort in two. 
Another temptation to idlenefs and fporting was a number of 
rabbits, which poflefled all the hillocks and dry places : but thefe 
being inconvenient to the huntfmen, on account of their burroNvs, 
when they came to take away the deer, they permitted the coun- 
try people to deftroy them all. 
Such forefts and waftes, when their allurements to irregularities 
are removed, are of confiderable fervice to neighbourhoods that 
verge upon them, by furniihing them with peac and turf for their 
firing ; with fuel for the burning their lime ; and v.'ith aflies for 
their gralTes j and by maintaining their geefe and their flock of 
young cattle at little or no expenfe. 
The manor-farm of the parifh of Greatham has an admitted 
'> This chafe remains un-ftocked to this day; the bifliop was Dr, Eoadlj.. 
D 2 claim, 
