PHEASANT POACHING. 



(^/^v H C ROUGH late summer and autumn the 

 Vjy poacher's thoughts go out to the 



early weeks of October. Neither 

 the last load of ruddy corn, nor the actual 

 netting of the partridge gladden his heart as 

 do the first signs of the dying year. There are 

 certain sections of the Game Laws which he 

 never breaks, and only some rare circumstance 

 tempts him to take immature birds. But by the 

 third week of October the yellow and sere of 



