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below the wood, I have heard my 
father say that before he came upon the 
walk there was an idle drunken man had it, 
who used to lie in bed a-mornings whilst the 
lath-renders in yon ^village stole the young 
spires/ ‘ The Lords of the Treasury (replied 
our friend) ought to be thankful to the lath- 
renders for the judicious thinnings they thus 
gave the plantation/ 
Other plantations of oak appear to have 
been made of much later date, at different 
periods within the last twenty or thirty years, 
and fenced round with posts, rails, &c. at a 
very heavy expence to the public ; but it is 
remarked by persons of observation in the 
forest, that no sooner were those fences com- 
pleated than they were pulled down again, 
with the connivance of those persons who, pro- 
bably , were at first employed to make and ere6l 
them, and then from time to time replaced 
and repaired at an enormous charge. At 
length, the whole business turning out to be 
an arrant job, the main objedl of raising 
