They also burnt his river and bagged his fine Dorking fowls, and all these feats being accomplished with impunity, they turned their attention to his fat sheep.
'Poacher' is only a mild term for 'thief.' Puff was a perfect milch-cow in the way of generosity.

He gave to everything and everybody, and did not seem to be acquainted with any smaller sum than a five-pound note; a five-pound note to replace Giles Jolter's cart-horse (that used to carry his own game for the poachers to the poulterers at Plunderstone)--five pounds to buy Dame Doubletongue another pig, though she had only just given three pounds for the one that died--five pounds towards the fire at farmer Scratchley's, though it had taken place two years before Puff came into the country, and Scratchley had been living upon it ever since--and sundry other five pounds to other equally deserving and amiable people.

He put his name down for fifty to the Mangeysterne hounds without ever being asked; which reminds us that we ought to be directing our attention to that noble establishment.
It is hard to have to go behind the scenes of an ill-supported hunt, and we will be as brief and tender with the cripples as we can.

The Mangeysterne hounds wanted that great ingredient of prosperity, a large nest-egg subscriber, to whom all others could be tributary--paying or not as might be convenient.

The consequence was they were always up the spout.