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Forest and Game-Law Tales

Forest and Game-Law Tales

Martineau, Harriet

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ISBN10: 1150441887
ISBN13: 9781150441882
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 58
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.12 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II. FIRST YEAR. Mr. Neville came down to the Lodge, and staid there till the London season recalled him to town. He brought and entertained a good many friends; and he left behind him very distinct traces of his residence. He had kept open house at Christmas; had looked a little into his affairs, and approved of most that his steward, Mr. Cosby, had done; but had ordered alterations enough in the grounds to employ several labourers for some months to come; and had sent for and settled an accomplished gamekeeper from the other side of Norwich, who was to get up the game to a reasonable amount, observing strictly the promise made to the neighbouring farmers that they should not be injured by the game to any extent worth complaining of. Mr. Neville hoped that by one device he had done his tenants some good, while saving his own purse. He gave over the rabbits to his gamekeeper, as a perquisite, thus, while reducing the man's salary, providing, as he trusted, for the rabbits being pretty well cleared off, --the demand for them being considerable in Norwich, and in all the towns of the county. These arrangements made, he went away;--might pop down to the seaside in the summer, --or might not be seen again till the next shooting season. He had not been long gone when a few incidents occurred which made some of the inhabitants of the neighbourhood feel that, however great might be the good of the landlord's residence, that good was not unmixed. On the very day of his departure, Henry was sending his sheep, as usual, by the way of the wood, from his sward land to his turnip field, when the shepherd came and told him that he could not get through the wood, --the gate being locked. Henry went to the spot, and found this true. He called aloud, and his well-know

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