[The Girl From Keller’s by Harold Bindloss]@TWC D-Link bookThe Girl From Keller’s CHAPTER IX 21/30
Still he admitted that it might not have done so quite so much but for the pain it caused the girl. Helen glanced at him with some surprise when he went back to the fence. She had not seen him look like that. "I've let them go, but two or three are dead," he remarked.
"I suppose they've been lying there all night." "I'm afraid so.
They come out to feed at dusk.
It's horribly cruel." "It's devilish! Why don't you stop it? Is the field yours ?" "It goes with the house, and when we let the grazing I stipulated that no snares should be laid, but there was some mistake and the tenant claimed the rabbits.
We said he could shoot them, and I understand he's disputing with the agent.
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