35/37 People do when they take a little shooting. They pay some trumpery thirty or forty pounds a year, and then they seem to think that it's almost the same as though they owned the property themselves. I've known a man talk of his manor because he had the shooting of a wood and a small farm round it. They are generally shopkeepers out of London, gin distillers, or brewers, or people like that." "Why, Mr.Belton, I didn't think you could be so furious!" "Can't I? There's Stovey's empty cart standing just where it stood yesterday; and he promised he'd have it home before three to-day. |