THE AUTHOR S DEN 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



Curres and Short-winged Fowl . 

 Sporting Trophy .... 



A Sportsman of the Old School (Dedication) . 

 Belaugh Church (Preface) 

 The Author's Den (List of Illustrations) 

 Oulton Lock and the Old Wherry Inn . 

 Some Members of a Broadland Parliament 

 Eventide ...... 



A Leviathan (Perch) . 

 Sketch Plan of Oulton Broad . 

 Butt Spears . 



Broadland Talismans 

 How to catch Lob Worms by Night 

 Bobbing at Night 

 Eel Spears . . . ' 



An Eel-Spearer at Work 



A Cockney Wildfowler ("Any duck abart ? ") 

 Breaking open a "Wake" 

 Fig. I. Stale or Artificial Decoy Duck 

 Fig. n. Stale or Artificial Decoy Duck 

 Fig. JII. Stale or Artificial Decoy Duck 

 Fig. IV. Stale or Artificial Decoy Duck 



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