MISCELLANEOUS DUTIES 443 



matchbox, watch, flask, whistle, and 

 whip. 



(f) Baskets, boxes, and labels for game. 



(g) Arrangements for selling game. 



(^) The keeper's gun and ammunition ; condition 

 of fishing-rods, fly-book, hackle case, waders, 

 gaffs, landing - nets, fishing - baskets, and 

 bags. 



(i) Licences. 



(/) Drugs for horses, dogs, and ferrets. 

 (&) Cleaning and disinfecting material for stables 

 (where there are no coachman or stable 

 hands), kennels, ferret boxes, and runs. 

 (/) Boats oars. Number and condition of repair 



boat chains, balers, etc. 



(3) The keeper and his underlings must always be 

 on the alert to assist in the following courteous actions 

 (a) Giving all assistance in their power at luncheon 

 time, for instance by supplying game bags or other 

 forms of seats for the shooters, by putting soda-water 

 bottles into running streams for the purpose of cooling, 

 by opening wine, beer, or whisky bottles, by laying 

 out the contents of the luncheon basket, and by care- 

 fully stowing away the de*bris of the luncheon before 

 the guns start shooting again ; (b) holding guns while 

 the sportsmen get over or through dykes, gates, or 

 hedges ; (c) procuring waterproofs or any change of 

 clothing which may have been brought on to the shoot- 

 ing-ground ; (d) carrying the gun of any sportsman who 



