But they've always been taught, you see, to regard the bird in the air as belonging to the man with the gun.

On these large estates game was so plentiful in the old days and pot-hunters, as they call them, so few, that it didn't pay a man to watch out for his interest.

Now that the birds are getting scarce, the majority of farmers in the State are having their lands posted, but your uncle was too little of a sportsman to concern himself in the matter." "Well, I knocked a tooth out of the fellow, so the whole county will be after me like a pack of hounds, I suppose.

I wonder who he was, by the way--young, good looking, rather a bully ?" "The description fits a Revercomb.

As they are your next neighbours it was probably the miller or his brother." "I know the miller, and it wasn't he--but when I come to think of it, the youngster had that same rustic look to him.