They ain't meanin' to do any shootin', even if they have got Lem Scott along as a guide, and he the meanest skunk in the hull county, lots o' folks do say, and a poacher in the bargain that the wardens are layin' to grab one o' these fine days.

Their dexterity in the use of fire arms was such, that no people, however well skilled in manoeuvring, could make such good use of a gun; the huntsman of Loroux, and the poacher of le Bocage, having been always proverbial as excellent marksmen.

Lancelot, I verily believe, would have kept his promise, though he saw that the keepers gave ground, finding Cockney skill too much for their clumsy strength; but at last Harry Verney, who had been fighting as venomously as a wild cat, and had been once before saved from a broken skull by Tregarva, rolled over at his very feet with a couple of poachers on him.

Their object was to surprise the fish-poachers at the illegal, but very exciting and picturesque, sport of spearing by torchlight.

From the poacher to the prime ministerwearying yourselves for very vanity!

Crime and sin, being the preserves of two great organized interests, have been guarded against all reforming poachers with as great jealousy as the Royal Forests.

At last he saw them driven along the road, for it had been found impossible to mend the cart, and at this moment Father Oliver began to think that he would like to be a pig-driver, or better still, a poacher like Carmody.

Time was, when he had looked on a poacher as a Pariah 'hostem humani generis'and only deplored that the law forbade him to shoot them down, like cats and otters; but he had begun to change his mind.

He was said to 'ave cleared out all the poachers for miles round the place 'e came from, and pheasants could walk into people's cottages and not be touched.

He was a man of about fifty, who boasted to me that he had been a poacher from the age of fifteen, and had never been caught.

" "Maxwell says there are lots of poachers about.

He has done more than thatfar more, this poacher out of the West!" He turned and went swiftly through the door.