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The Marquess, in fact, while he held obstinately to his fishing rights, prosecuted poachers, enforced the corvee and took toll at every ford, yet laboured to improve his lands, exterminated the wild beasts that preyed on them, helped his peasants in sickness, nourished them in old age and governed them with a paternal tyranny doubtless less insufferable than the negligence of the great land-owners who lived at court.
I had soon learned to know the country as well as the cleverest of poachers; and nothing was so useful to us as this familiarity with all the unknown hiding-places. The countess, on her side, never let three months pass by without discovering some urgent motive which carried her to Rochelle, to Angouleme, or to Paris; and I was there to meet her.
Don't you feel as if we were poachers?" "Yes, or burglars! I guess we've got to burgle quietly. Hope the old lady hasn't set man-traps in her park." "Or doesn't leave savage bloodhounds to roam at large and guard the premises. Well, we shall have to take our chance. It's rather like storming a fortress isn't it?" "I call it precious!" chuckled Diana. The fence did not look too easy to scale.
They kill wantonly and leave those they do not choose to pelt." "Trail " Nymani pointed eastward. "Leads to Mygra swamp." "The swamps!" Asaki was shaken. "They must be mad!" "Or know more about this country than your men do," Jellico corrected. "If poachers can enter Mygra, then we can follow!" But not now, Dane protested silently.
With indignant pity, he stepped forward and drew a merciful knife across the throat of the suffering beast. The calf shrank away and stood staring at him anxiously, wavering between terror and trust. For a moment or two the man hesitated. Of one thing he was certain: the poachers who had set the deadfall must not profit by their success.
He congratulated himself that evening because he had recovered all his ferrets. Sometimes one will lie in and defy all efforts to bring it out. One plan is to place a dead fresh rabbit at the mouth of the hole which may tempt the ferret to come and seize it. In large woods there are generally one or more ferrets wandering loose in the season, that have escaped from the keepers or poachers.
Like other young men of fortune, he made what was then called the "grand tour of Europe," his sketchbooks showing that he traveled as far as Corfu, and subsequently, when he settled for life as the vicar of Dartington parish, he was regarded as one of the most enlightened country gentlemen of the district, active in improving the roads, which, till his time, were abominable, and in bringing poachers to punishment if not to repentance.
You may be sure I was not behindhand with a story for myself a good old story after the manner of G.P.R. James and the village melodramas, with a wicked squire, and poachers, and an attorney, and a virtuous young man with a genius for mechanics, who should love, and protect, and ultimately marry the girl in the crimson room.
"Quite right, too," said Sandy gravely, but with a twinkle in his blue eye. "They ought to be reported. I have no use for those poachers." Duff made no reply. His rage and disgust, mingled with the sense of his being in the wrong, held him silent.
"I wonder, now, if Cotton at the lodge has heard anything of the poachers again this year, round Arleigh way?" "Not that I know of," said Ruth, surprised at the simplicity of the question. "Dear sakes! and to think of 'em at Vandon last night, and Mr. Dare and the keepers out all night after 'em." Ruth was interested in spite of herself.
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