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often thinned. But, my Lord, although I openly
acknowledge my aversion to the unfeathered
biped species to which you belong, yet the kinds
and degrees of hatred are various as the cha-
racters of those towards whom we entertain it;
and while some, affecting to treat my persecuted
race a8 noxious vermin, destroy us by day and
by night with snare, trap, gun, and every other
engine which their ingenuity can devise, we have
always found in your Lordship a fair and open
enemy, and one who disdained to have recourse
to the cowardly contrivances above referred
to. It is on this account, my Lord, that I have
done you the honour to dedicate to you the
ollowing narrative of my eventful life.

Many are the happy hours that I have
Spent, some years since, in the neighbourhood
of your Lordship’s hen-roost. in Hampshire,
and latterly many a tender rabbit, &c. have
I carried home from the plantations and fields
which you now so handsomely preserve for
the use of myself and my kindred at Wimpole ;

this conduct on your part would have ensured