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‘Born to conume the Fruits of the Earth,’ So, I make no manner of Doubt but that there are others

‘Born to conume the Beats of the Field,’ or, as it is commonly called, the Game; and none, I believe, will deny, but that thoe Squires fulfil this end of their Creation.

Little Jones went one Day a hooting with the Game-keeper; when, happening to pring a Covey of Partridges, near the Border of that Manor, over which Fortune, to fulfil the wie Purpoes of Nature, had planted one of the Game-Conumers, the Birds flew into it, and were marked (as it is called) by the two Sportmen, in ome Furze Buhes, about two or three hundred Paces beyond Mr. Allworthy’s Dominions.

Mr. Allworthy had given the Fellow trict Orders, on Pain of forfeiting his Place, never to trepas on any of his Neighbours, no more than on thoe who were les rigid in this Matter, than on the Lord of the Manor.