Excerpt from The Brookes of BridlemereThe Squire wouldn't miss it, if you took five shillings off his chimney-piece, but the law would send you to prison and hard labour, all the same and serve you right! Poaching is but stealing out of doors, J em. You ought to know that as well as I do. I tell you, I wouldn't trust a poacher any more than I would a housebreaker or a thief.But J em could not see the matter exactly in this light. It is doubtful if he ever admitted to himself he was com mitting a crime when he picked up a hare for supper on a shiny night, though he had a vague idea that it was not quite a respectable action, and, indeed, if he knew his own interest, was better let alone.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.