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Time was, when he had looked on a poacher as a Pariah 'hostem humani generis' and only deplored that the law forbade him to shoot them down, like cats and otters; but he had begun to change his mind. He had learnt, and learnt rightly, the self-indulgence, the danger, the cruelty, of indiscriminate alms. It looked well enough in theory, on paper.
Before the hut, and surrounded by the forest, was a large clearing, where two roads crossed. Adam, Marx and Ruth had gazed first down one and then the other, to look for the wagon, but nothing was to be seen or heard. As, with increasing anxiety, they turned back to the first path, the poacher grew restless.
The old poacher saw the weasels in the 'Pitching. This was a private lane, which ran through the recesses of the Chace where the wood was thickest and most secluded. It had been made for the convenience of communication between the upper and lower farms, and for hauling timber; the gates at each end being kept locked.
Bjornerud, making no answer, leaped over the prostrate figure, and, followed by the deputy, dashed down upon the ice. "In the name of the law!" he shouted again, and both rifles were reluctantly lowered. "I have shot an elk," cried Ralph, eagerly, "and this man is a poacher, we heard him shoot." "I have killed an elk," screamed the poacher, in the same moment, "and so has this fellow."
It may well be believed, that he who rendered this important service on this trying emergency, could not be passed over, and the name of J. Larkins soon after appeared in the Gazette as one of his Majesty's justices of the peace for the county; pretty much in the same spirit in which a country gentleman converts the greatest poacher in his neighbourhood by making him, his gamekeeper.
They roost on the ground in a circle, heads outwards, much in the same position as the eggs of a lapwing. The spot is marked; and at night, having crept up near enough, the poacher fires at the spot itself rather than at the birds, with a gun loaded with a moderate charge of powder, but a large quantity of shot, that it may spread wide. On moderately light nights he can succeed at this game.
He went in the direction indicated, entered the thicket, and there he heard words which made him suspect a flagrant breach of morality. Advancing, therefore, on his hands and knees as if to surprise a poacher, he had arrested the couple whom he found there.
In later life he said: "If you shoot, the squire and the poacher both consider you as their natural enemies, and I thought it more clerical to be at peace with both." His eldest son. Compare "The Sixth Commandment in suspended, by one medical diploma, from the North of England to the South." Essay on "Persecuting Bishops." Addressed to Mrs. Henry Howard.
So, beat North Wood which way you will, them artful old cocks will run ahead of ye, or double back into them larches. And you see Mr. Bassett is not a gentleman, like Sir Charles; he is always a-mouching about, and the biggest poacher in the parish; and so he drops on to 'em out of bounds." "Is there no way of stopping all this, sir?" "We might station a dozen beaters ahead.
The poacher was about to crawl from his hiding place, when suddenly, close beside the hedgerow, the head of the doe hare came into sight. Startled, in spite of expectation, by her sudden appearance, and excited as he recognised the "slit-eared hare," the poacher involuntarily moved to grasp his gun.
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