CONTENTS. XV 



Page 

 SHOT BELT 1 18 



DRESS FOR A SHOOTER 120 



APPARATUS 124 



SHO TING 125 



Finishing Lessons in, (with a disclosure to the unfinished 

 shooter, of how to manoeuvre wild covies, &c. #c. and to 

 know how to cope with a crafty old Sportsman) 137 



Partridge Shooting 147 



Grouse Shooting 152 



(With recipe for keeping Grouse ; so as to send them 

 any distance, within the United Kingdoms, in the 

 hottest weather} 154 



Shooting Pheasants, #c. (with a few directions to the inex- 

 perienced, for recovering their own Game, if unhand- 

 somely driven from them; Shooting in Covert, be.) . . 154 



Cock Shooting 159 



Snipe Shooting, with observations, that Snipe Shooting 

 and Fly Fishing may be followed on the same day .... 159 



Letter with information to Mr. Martin on these two sub- 

 jects ; after which are introduced, new Directions for 

 Fly Fishing, Trolling, and other matter relative to 

 Trout Fishing 162 



Trout Fishing 1 64 



A LIST of BIRDS, be. $c., which are most commonly 

 followed by Shooting Sportsmen; alphabetically ar- 

 ranged, with their proper names, as selected by Bewick 

 their Latin and French names as given by Linnteus and 

 Buff on, with general directions for getting access to them 181 

 In the foregoing list is introduced 



BLACK-GAME SHOOTING ON THE BORDERS 

 OF HANTS AND DORSET. : 204 



Directions as to what birds are proper for the Table ; how 

 to choose them at Market; how to keep them, fyc. &c.. . 239 



Recipe for Sauce to Wildfowl 244 



DOGS (^concise directions for breaking and managing} 245 



Newfoundland Dogs ; how to choose them, fyc 248 



