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"As much business as you have," said Tom stoutly, for the lad's manner made his blood begin to flow more freely. "No, you 'ain't; you're only a stranger, and just come." "Anybody must have a right to come through here so long as he isn't poaching." The lad gave a sharp look round, and then turned menacingly to Tom, with his fist doubled, and thrust his face forward.
We have considerable poaching on one of these clubs, the territory being so extensive that it is impossible to prevent it. We own 60,000 acres, and these poachers, I am told, nearly all use the automatic guns. They frequently kill six or eight ducks out of one flock first taking a raking shot on the water, and then getting in the balance of the magazine before the flock is out of range.
I was always irregular in my tastes. If I liked a piece of verse, I liked it with passion and praised it inordinately; again I was apt to be as absolute in my dislike. I was a kind of poaching gipsy of literature.
As for my other companions from Cumberland, Miles Square, the most aspiring of all, has long left me, and is superintendent to a great sheep-owner some two hundred miles off. The Will-o'-the-Wisp is consigned to the cattle station, where he is Vivian's head man, finding time now and then to indulge his old poaching propensities at the expense of parrots, black cockatoos, pigeons, and kangaroos.
And I have worked, thought, and taken the blame for others so very successfully, that I must needs take to poaching that I may live." "But other men may require valets!" "True, sir, and there are plenty of valets to be had of a sort; but the most accomplished one in the world, if without a character, had better go and hang himself out of the way, and have done with it.
He rose, turned swiftly, saw a bottle swinging, threw up his hand... and fell backwards against the bed. The woman caught his bleeding head to her breast and hugged it. "My Jock, my poor boy!" she cried in delirium now. Cawley had thrown his arms about the struggling, drunken assailant Jock's poaching friend.
Most of us thought Henery Walker's fortune was as good as made, but Bob Pretty, a nasty, low poaching chap that has done wot he could to give Claybury a bad name, turned up his nose at it. "I'll believe he's coming 'ome when I see him," he ses. "It's my belief he went to Australey to get out o' your way, Henery." "As it 'appened he went there afore I was born," ses Henery Walker, firing up.
They would say: 'That is Renard's place'; and nobody would have gone there, not even Monsieur Plumeau, who is well known, be it said without any offense, for poaching on other people's preserves. "Well, I returned to this place of which I felt certain, just as if I had owned it. I had scarcely got there on Saturday, when I got into Delila, with my wife.
"But I do; your father was the best fellow I had in my company the best forager, and always took care of his officer, as a good man should do. If there was a turkey, or a goose, or a duck, or a fowl, or a pig within ten miles of us, he would have it: he was the boy for poaching.
The keeper laughed; he was a kind-hearted fellow enough. "Let well alone, lad, and ill too at times. Thy life's safer than mine at all events, eh, Mr. Grimes?" And Grimes laughed again, and then the two men began talking, quite low. Tom could hear, though, that it was about some poaching fight; and at last Grimes said surlily, "Hast thou anything against me?" "Not now."
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