PRESERVATION 93 



cloak for night-watching, renewed when 

 necessary. 



In a work on keepers and their lives 

 published last year, 1 it was laid down that 

 all rabbits and pigeons killed were the 

 fair perquisite of the keeper, and even 

 that he had a fair claim to any game 

 killed by vermin or ' chance-killed game ' 

 unsuitable for his employer's table. As 

 in the same chapter it is stated that the 

 keeper " puts his best work into his garden, 

 which is often the model plot of a rural 

 community," and also that he " may keep 

 fowls at his employer's expense, make 

 money by dog-breeding and exhibiting, 

 earn vermin and rabbit money (whatever 

 that is) as extra pay, and receive from his 

 employer if a generous master a brace 

 of pheasants and a hare to take home with 

 him after every shooting party," it is fairly 

 clear that this is not our standard of a 

 gamekeeper ; but it does seem a pity to 

 advance such dangerous theories in an 

 otherwise excellent and deservedly widely 



1 A Gamekeeper's Note-Book, by Owen Jones. 



