9/34 'Look at that now, for a keeper to say! Why, if he don't happen to have a snare just there, he has somewhere else, you know. Eh? Eh? The most notoriousest poacher as walks unhung!' And old Harry lifted up his crooked hands in pious indignation. What with hunting down Christians as if they were vermin, all night, and being cursed by the squire all day, I'd sooner be a sheriff's runner, or a negro slave.' 'Ay, ay! that's the way the young dogs always bark afore they're broke in, and gets to like it, as the eels does skinning. |