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"You show us the woodcocks, Jeffries," answered Quatermain quickly, for he never liked being crossed in anything to do with sport, "and we will look after shooting them." The man turned and went rather sulkily. I heard him say to the under-keeper, "He's pretty good, the master is, I'm not saying he isn't, but if he kills a woodcock in this light and wind, I'm a Dutchman."
'Please, sir, there's my sister at the cottage, her as married Jim, the under-keeper. I be going there for my tea. 'Come along then, we can go together. They trudged along in silence; presently Robert turned on his companion. 'Ned, this natural history has been a fine thing for you, my lad; mind you stick to it. That and good work will make a man of you. When I go away
But Robert Foster and his son, who assisted him as under-keeper, while indulging before the marshal and the constables in the utmost violence and severity of language, and who were supposed to be strict enforcers of all the instructions received from the magistrates, were as we have seen, at heart, very liberal and kind-hearted men.
"Maybe 'cause they're told to," he shouted. "Aye that's the reason as like as not; 'cause they're told to." "Who are 'they'?" "Old Gipsy Hawkins as used to be Sir Burnham's under-keeper. What's he doin' of up there at Park all day? Layin' traps and such that's what he's doin' of. My son Jim knows it, he do. My son Jim found one of 'em and left best part of a pair of trousers in it, too!"
He told me he was going to look for work directly, and Maxwell is coming up to speak to you about him to-morrow." "Ah! I daresay wants him to take the place of under-keeper, I suppose," and Sir Edward gave a little grunt of dissatisfaction at the thought.
As we approached one of the dykes which convey the water for the irrigation, caution was observed, not a word was uttered by one of the party, and our good behaviour was rewarded by a brace of fine birds, which were deposited in the bag, carried by a celestial under-keeper.
"Many's the time I've climbed over this stile more years ago than I like to think, sir," he remarked lightly. "My father was under-keeper to his lordship's father, and I've not been back since twenty years. It's not a bit changed, though, the old place, not a bit, I'm going, when I retire on my pension, to live down here again.
"One fellow, the under-keeper, called Joliffe, deserves death, however," said Pearson, "since he has frankly admitted that he slew honest Joseph Tomkins." "He deserves a reward for saving us a labour," said Cromwell; "that Tomkins was a most double-hearted villain.
"Nay, sir," replied the under-keeper, "there have been many coming and going since Worcester-field; and how should I know who they are? my service is out of doors, I trow." "A thousand pounds," said Cromwell, "do I tell down to thee, if thou canst place that boy in my power." "A thousand pounds is a marvellous matter, sir," said Joceline; "but I have more blood on my hand than I like already.
And this behaviour seemed highly suspicious to Jim Burdon, the under-keeper, who, not recognising his young master, decided that here was a stranger up to no good. Jim's mind ran on poachers this year. Indeed he had little else to brood over and very little else to discuss with Macklin, the head-keeper.
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