Xll CONTENTS. 



BOOK VI. 



THE GAME PKESEKVER'S GUIDE. 

 CHAPTER I. DUTIES OF THE GAMEKEEPER. 



PAGE 



Onerous Nature of the Task Honesty Knowledge of Law neces- 

 sary Numbers required The Keeper's Gun Selection of 

 Preserve or Shooting Contracts for taking Moors^or Manors 

 Certificate 361 



CHAPTER II. REARING GAME. 



The Kinds which can be reared artificially Methods of obtaining 

 Eggs Hatching Bearing Keeping Tame Pheasants Turning 

 Out Bearing Game in a Wild State 368 



CHAPTER III. VERMIN AND THE MODES OP DESTROYING 

 THEM. 



The Cat Marten Fox Polecat Stoat Weasel Bat Hedge- 

 hog Eagle Kite Peregrine Falcon Buzzard Marsh Harrier 

 Hen Harrier Montague's Harrier Sparrow Hawk Hobby 

 Merlin Kestrel Barn Owl Brown Owl Baven Crow 

 Hooded Crow Jackdaw Magpie Jay Traps and Trapping 

 The Vermin Terrier Poison, and the Mode of laying it ... 381 



CHAPTER IV. POACHERS, AND THE BEST MODES OF 



COUNTERACTING THEIR SCHEMES. 



General Bemarks Labourers the best Preservers of Game, as they 

 are also the worst Poachers The Certificated Poacher The 

 Regular Poacher, and his Proceedings 416 



CHAPTER V. THE GAME LAWS. 



General Bemarks English. Game Law of 1831 Law for permitting 

 the killing of Hares in England Scotch Law, including that 

 permitting the killing of Hares, and also the Law of Trespass 

 Irish Game Laws , . 423 



