Off the Beaten Track (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Kate! But now he could not touch a bird he must not fire a shot. He could see, but could not take. It was the law. The new lord of the manor, a cousin of the old lord, and a commercial man from elsewhere, knowing nothing of local conditions, and caring less, had asserted his right to the foreshore, and his lawyer and his money were at the back of him.

This meant that all shooting by the people, either above or below high-water mark, was stopped. It was nothing to him, of course. He had only claimed his own. Before that the people had looked upon it as their ancient right to shoot anywhere below high-water mark, on the ground that the foreshore be longed to the Crown. He had declared them wrong. To many of the local marshmen the Wild-fowling season in the Winter ranked as their harvest. Wild-fowling was their calling, as it had been the calling of their fathers before them. Take it away, and they would starve. Taken away, then, it was, and the few that were still left, the remnant of a dying race, were starving in silence. They were too proud to ask.

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