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The Amateur Poacher

CHAPTER VII
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As for the rabbits, they hates they worse than poison.

They knocks a hare over now and then themselves on the quiet--bless you! I could tell tales on a main few, but I bean't such a fellow as that.
'But, you see I don't run no risk except from the keeper hisself, the men as helps un, and two or three lickspittles as be always messing round after a ferreting job or some wood-cutting, and the Christmas charities.

It be enough to make a man sick to see they.

This yer parish be a very big un, and a be preserved very high, and I can do three times as much in he as in the next un, as ain't much preserved.

So I sticks to this un.
'Of course they tried to drive I out of un, and wanted the cottage; but granny had all the receipts for the quit-rent, and my lard and all the lawyers couldn't shove us out, and there we means to bide.


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