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Updated: May 28, 2025
Old memories Hindon as a borough and as a village The Lamb Inn and its birds The "mob" at Hindon The blind smuggler Rawlings of Lower Pertwood Farm Reed, the thresher and deer-stealer He leaves a fortune Devotion to work Old Father Time Groveley Wood and the people's rights Grace Reed and the Earl of Pembroke An illusion of the very aged Sedan-chairs in Bath Stick-gathering by the poor Game-preserving
In a game-preserving community such talents ought, one would imagine, to have met with appreciative recognition; but unfortunately Slam was suspected of being far more fatal to pheasants, hares, and rabbits than to all the vermin he destroyed.
Truly this same sense of the infinite nature of duty, is the central part of all within us; a ray as of eternity and immortality immured in dusky many-coloured Time, and its deaths and births. Your coloured glass varies so much from century to century and in certain money-making, game-preserving centuries, it gets terribly opaque.
He preferred the new arrangement, if his wife and family were happy and contented, to a domestic system founded on his own principles, accompanied by a sullen or shrewish partner of his own life and rebellious offspring. What really vexed him, among comparatively lesser matters, was the extraordinary passion which in time his son exhibited for game-preserving.
And he, though individually he did not understand how there was to be game in the land if game-preserving was abolished, signed his name R. C. S. NEVIL BEAUCHAMP for Dr. SHRAPNEL, in the communications directed to solicitors of the persecutors of poachers. His behaviour to Grancey Lespel was eclipsed by his treatment of Captain Baskelett.
For the offense one man was hanged, and four men are now on their way to penal colonies. Six families are thus deprived of husband and father, that this wretched system of game-preserving may be continued in a country densely peopled as this is. The Marquis of Normanby's gamekeeper has been murdered also, and the poacher who shot him only escaped death by the intervention of the Home Secretary.
The murders had roused all the humane and ethical instincts, which were in fact the man, to such a point that they pursued him constantly, in the pauses of his crowded days, like avenging Erinnyes. Hallin's remark that "game-preserving creates crime" left him no peace. Intellectually he argued it, and on the whole rejected it; morally, and in feeling, it scourged him.
I confess, in spite of all my class prejudices against "game-preserving aristocrats," I almost envied the man; at least I seemed to understand a little of the universally attractive charms which those same outwardly contemptible field sports possess; the fresh air, fresh fields and copses, fresh running brooks, the exercise, the simple freedom, the excitement just sufficient to keep alive expectation and banish thought.
"If I do a thing, I like it to be well done, and not half-and-half." Caroline rose from the table, dreading, like many a mother, a regular skirmish about game-preserving, between those who cared to shoot, and those who did not.
Then perhaps you don't know that she has invented a whole, new, and original system of game-preserving she and Frank fight over it by the hour that she has upset all the wage arrangements of the county that, perhaps, you do know, for it got into the papers and a hundred other trifles. Has she revealed these things?"
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