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said Tom , much amused . `` Why you see sir , he do n't come at any hours . Drat un ! '' said the keeper , getting hot ; `` blessed if I do n't think he sometimes comes down among the haymakers and folk at noon , and up lines and off , while they chaps does nothing but snigger at un -- all I knows is , as I 've watched till midnight , and then on again at dawn for ` n , and no good come on it but once . '' `` How was that ? '' `` Well , one mornin ' , sir , about last Lady-day , I comes quite quiet up stream about dawn . When I get 's to Farmer Giles 's piece -LRB- that little rough bit , sir , as you sees t ` other side the stream , two fields from our outside bounds -RRB- , I sees un a stooping down and hauling in 's line .