A little illicit badger-baiting is varied by a little vicar-baiting; the mass of the inhabitants are the reddest of Reds.

Que voulez-vous?
The edges of some large estates come up near, but the owners would hardly like to institute a persecution of these turbulent folk.

If they did, where would be their influence at the next election?
If a landlord makes himself unpopular, his own personal value depreciates.

He is a nonentity in the committee-room, and his help rather deprecated by the party than desired.

The Sarsen fellows are not such fools as to break pheasant preserves in the vale; as they are resident, that would not answer.