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retired poacher as one of his watchers, he may pick up some additional wrinkles. Country carriers, milkmen, waggoners and other humble men traffic in the carriage of game. Publicans and local dealers facilitate cash advances upon fur and feather. The village barber is often sounded by strangers as to the likeliest receiving-house for a wild rabbit, and his information is generally at the service of his customers; for he is loquacious by habit, and thinks evil of no man.
