INDEX 



ACCIDENTS, shooting, 280 

 Advertisements of keepers seek- 

 ing berths, 6 



Bags, keepers judged by, 293 

 Beaters, 214, 217, 218, 221 ; as 

 critics of shooting, 222 ; beer 

 and, 228 ; bets of, 221 ; cater- 

 ing for, 226, 227 ; poachers 

 as, 219; sneaking game, 219, 

 220 ; strikes of, 223, 224, 225 

 supper, 231 ; varieties of, 215, 

 216, 230 



Boar-hound, a Canadian, 232 

 Brother-in-law, a famous, 14 



Cartridge-bags, 33, 277, 278 

 Cartridges, * my,' 7 

 Cats, 3, 283, 286 

 Clumber, a beauty, 254, 255 

 Crane, bagging of a, 17 

 Cubs, to dig out a litter of, 19 



Dells, three, 12 

 Details, importance of, 7 

 Dogs, 247, 248, 250; feats of, 

 283, 284 ; feuds of, 257 ; 

 found dead, 262 ; friendships 

 between, 257 ; mad, 260 ; 

 poaching and trespassing, 

 261 ; sales of, 249 ; stories of, 



263, 264, 290; useful, 256; 



ways of, 258 ; wild, 248 

 Doves, their food, 154 

 Drives, blank, 42 



Eggs, weak-germed, 40 

 Egg-poachers, 236, 240 

 Egg-stealers, human, 20 

 Egg-stealing, 234 ; instances of, 

 236, 237 ; by gipsies, 238 



Feeding partridges, 42 



Ferrets, 16, 288 



Finger-trick, the, 5 



Foxes, 19, 167 ; a keeper's 

 eccentric custom with, 167, 

 1 68 ; and cock pheasants, 

 178; and a laconic keeper, 

 173 ; and partridges, 45, 174, 

 175; and rabbits, 177; and 

 shooting interests, 169, 170, 

 171 ; and uncouth sounds, 

 1 78 ; damage to game by, 

 169; fallacies concerning, 178, 

 179; are vegetarians, 178 



Gamekeeper, tipping the, 265 

 1 Game-keeping as a road to for- 

 tune, 302 ; first attempt at, 4 

 Gipsies, 20, 21, 22 

 Greens, a shower of, 162 



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