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Second Edition. Large post 8vo., price Is. 6rf., by post 8s. 



THE 



"IDSTONE" PAPERS. 



A SERIES OF ARTICLES AND DESULTORY OBSERVATIONS ON 

 SPORT AND THINGS IN GENERAL 



"IDSTONE,' 



Of "The Field." 



CONTENTS. 



Chap. 



I. — Agricultural Labourers. 

 II.— The Rough Rider. 

 III.— The First of May. 

 IV.— " Strictly Confldential." 



v.— Shooting Dress. 

 VI.— Some Old Portraits. 

 VII. — Dens and Sanctums. 

 VIII.— The Rat-catcher. 

 IX.— Early Morning in London. 

 X.— The Earthst" >pper. 

 XL— The Shooting Pony. 

 XII.— Whistle and Whip. 

 XIII. — Old Traps and Spring-guns. 

 XIV.— Tom Frere the Hard-riding 



Farmer. 

 XV.— Expecting Brown. 



Chap. 



XVI. — Brown in the Country. 

 XVIL— The Earthstoppers' Feast. 

 XVIIL— The White Snipe. 

 XIX. — Swans and Eagles. 

 XX.— The Philosophy of Missing. 

 XXI. — Shooting in Aldemey. 

 XXII.— Shirkers. 

 XXIII.— Our Black Heath. 

 XXIV.— Traps and Calls. 

 XXV.— Northward. 

 XXVL— A Bright October. 

 XXVIL— Varied Shooting. 

 XXVIIL— The End of the Season. 

 XXIX.— On Beating for Game. 

 XXX. — Land Valuers and Stewards. 

 XXXI.— Snipe Shooting. 



WOEK BY THE LATE FRANCIS FRANCIS. 



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ANGLING REMINISCENCES, 



By the late FRANCIS FRANCIS, 



Author of " A Book on Anghng," <fcc. 



CONTENTS. 



A Christmas Retrospect. 



Luck. 



Loch Tay. 



The Angler's Wish. 



Grayling Fishing. 



Spring Salmon Fishing. 



Barbel Fishing. 



Cover Shooting. 



Fly Fishing for Ladies. 



Saint Mayfly. 



My First Salmon Run. 



The Mayfly Mess. 



A Month in the West, 



Trout Fishing. 



In and Out Dales. 



Up and Down. 



Tom Bowers's Christmas. 



"THE field" OFFICE, 346, STRAND, W.C. 



