To order myself lowly 'n rev'rently t'all my betters--" Presently it became evident that the effect of the growing giant on unaccustomed horses was like that of a camel, and he was told to keep off the highroad, not only near the shrubbery (where the oafish smile over the wall had exasperated her ladyship extremely), but altogether.
That law he never completely obeyed, because of the vast interest the highroad had for him.

But it turned what had been his constant resort into a stolen pleasure.

He was limited at last almost entirely to old pasture and the Downs.
I do not know what he would have done if it had not been for the Downs.
There there were spaces where he might wander for miles, and over these spaces he wandered.

He would pick branches from trees and make insane vast nosegays there until he was forbidden, take up sheep and put them in neat rows, from which they immediately wandered (at this he invariably laughed very heartily), until he was forbidden, dig away the turf, great wanton holes, until he was forbidden....
He would wander over the Downs as far as the hill above Wreckstone, but not farther, because there he came upon cultivated land, and the people, by reason of his depredations upon their root-crops, and inspired moreover by a sort of hostile timidity his big unkempt appearance frequently evoked, always came out against him with yapping dogs to drive him away.

They would threaten him and lash at him with cart whips.
I have heard that they would sometimes fire at him with shot guns.