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Updated: May 17, 2025
Imagine the feelings of an English squire, M.H. of his county, loving dogs and horses as some women love children, and regarding poaching and vulpicide as crimes almost as bad as murder imagine his feelings when his beautiful wife, grave and simple, should say at a hunt-dinner, "I do not like riding.
"And why not?" asked Alister, as if he had no idea what she could mean. "Is the fox a sacred animal in the south?" "It's worse than poaching!" she cried. "Hardly!" returned Alister. "No doubt you may get a good deal of fun out of Reynard, but you can't make game of him! Why you look as if you had lost a friend! I admire his intellect, but we can't afford to feed it on chickens and lambs."
You speak of it as if it was against your will, and yet refuse to say what drives you. Have you been poaching, Dan? Ah, that is it! But I can beg you off immediately. My father is very good even to strangers, and as for his doing anything to you have no fear, Dan; you shall not be charged with it, even if you have been in Brown Bushes."
"Crone used to be out at nights now and then, didn't he?" "Indeed, then, he did so, your honour," she answered readily. "'Tis true, he would be out at nights, now and again." "Poaching, as a matter of fact," suggested Mr. Lindsey. "And that's the truth, your honour," she assented. "He was a clever hand with the rabbits." "Aye; but did he never bring home a salmon, now?" asked Mr. Lindsey.
More often, however, their thoughts turned upon local topics the holding up of the coach of Sir James Harris or Squire Hamilton by highwaymen; the affray between the French smugglers and the Revenue men near Selsea Bill or Shoreham; the delinquencies of the poaching gangs; the heaviness of the taxes, and the price of corn.
"'Tis thought that some of the lads was giving the old boy a scare, he having been extra sharp on the poaching this year. All that's known is, he heard some person trying his shutters, and let fly out of his bedroom window with a gun; and what you can build on that I don't see." "You shall though." He began to cross-examine the girl. "At what time that night did your father see the hearse?"
He was far liker a cat; cared little or nothing for men, with whom he merely co-existed as we do with cattle, and was entirely devoted to the art of poaching. A house would not hold him, and to live in a town was what he refused. He led, I believe, a life of troubled but genuine pleasure, and perished beyond all question in a trap.
"You mean kindly, Ben, I know," he said; "but I cannot leave Janet, she's so ill; and if she gets better, there'll be no one except mother and me to walk out with her, now poor Faithful's gone; but if I hear there's a chance of my being had up for poaching, maybe it's the best thing I can do." Ben laughed scornfully.
Your aunt then came home to us, and as you have heard, married poor Green, who was killed in a poaching business about three months after his marriage. Then came your poor grandmother's death of a quinsy, and so I was left alone with your aunt Green, who then took charge of the child, who had been christened by the name of Lionel Bedingfield.
"This is no poaching huntsman whom you have slain," said he, "but a most worthy knight, the kindest, the best taught, that ever wore spurs. And ye have dragged me this day into such a war that I shall not be out of it so long as I live.
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