He will see hares and rabbits bobbing about on common farms, and partridges in broods, like separate flocks of hens and chickens, in fields of grain, within a stone's throw of the farmer's house.

I doubt if any county in New England produces so many in a year as the holding of Mr.Samuel Jonas already described.

Rabbits have been put out of the pale of protection somewhat recently, I believe, and branded with the bad name of _vermin_; so that the tenant farmer may kill them on his occupation without leave or license from the landlord.

It may indicate their number to state the fact, that one hundred and twenty-five head of them were killed in one day's shooting on Mr.
Jonas's estate by his sons and some of their friends.
It was market day in Oundle, and I had the pleasure of sitting down to dinner with a large company of farmers and cattle and corn- dealers.

They were intelligent, substantial-looking men, with no occupational peculiarity of dress or language to distinguish them from ordinary middle-class gentlemen engaged in trade or manufacture.