. Sport . s a rule, they will be found, ifa Royal Commission was appointed to examine CO VERT-SHOOTING. 157 the details of their discharge of the every-day dutiesof Hfe, to compare favourably with any othersection of mankind. I have spoken my mind freely and without fearon an unpopular subject, of which I have takenthe especially unpopular side. Battues are againstthe spirit of the age, it is said ; so, again, itis said, is the private ownership of land ; so, itmay be urged in the future, is the private owner-ship of a watch. Alter our laws if you will. Letall possession of property be illegal
. Sport . s a rule, they will be found, ifa Royal Commission was appointed to examine CO VERT-SHOOTING. 157 the details of their discharge of the every-day dutiesof Hfe, to compare favourably with any othersection of mankind. I have spoken my mind freely and without fearon an unpopular subject, of which I have takenthe especially unpopular side. Battues are againstthe spirit of the age, it is said ; so, again, itis said, is the private ownership of land ; so, itmay be urged in the future, is the private owner-ship of a watch. Alter our laws if you will. Letall possession of property be illegal, and curtail itsrights to the limits of the clothing we have onour backs. Annul all contracts, forbid buying andselling, abolish trade. Take from those who haveand give to those who have not, but at leastlet all who have be tarred with the same brush ;and until our laws be so altered, cease from thehypocrisy and spite which attacks not only theworldly possessions but even the amusements ofone class DEER-STALKING bryces bill I HAVE alluded, In my remarks on covert shoot-ing, to the spiteful character of the recentlypassed Ground Game or * Hares and RabbitsAct, which was known before it passed, and hasproved since its passing, to be of no real benefitwhatever to tenant farmers, although very injuriousin the interests of landowners. But that Act hadat all events the pretence of being introduced inthe interest of the tenant farmers, and anyhow therewas a clear motive—political though it was—onthe part of Government in passing it, viz., theplacing iha tenant farmer under an obligation tothe Government by their gift to him of certain M 162 SPORT rights and privileges which had by almost im-memorial custom belonged to his landlord. Butnow a strange Bill with a strange title is presentedto Parliament, called the Access to IMountainsBill, but which might with more accuracy of de-finition have been termed the Destruction toDeer-stalking, Ebullition of Envy, Indulgenceof Ill-
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