Beneath, the dank bronzed fern that must soon shrivel was wet, and hung with spiders' webs that like a slender netting upheld the dew.

The keeper swore a good deal about a certain gentleman farmer whose lands adjoined the estate, but who held under a different proprietor.

Between these two there was a constant bickering--the tenant angry about the damage done to his crops by the hares and rabbits, and the keeper bitterly resenting the tenant's watch on his movements, and warnings to his employer that all was not quite as it should be.
The tenant had the right to shoot, and he was always about in the turnips--a terrible thorn in the side of Dickon's friend.

The tenant roundly declared the keeper a rascal, and told his master so in written communications.

The keeper declared the tenant set gins by the wood, in which the pheasants stepped and had their legs smashed.