304 



TEN YEARS OF GAME-KEEPING 



Grouse, advantages over part- 

 ridges, 43 

 Guns, meeting the, 32 



Hares, 133 ; and holes, 140 ; 



damage by, 136, 137, 138; 



disease of, 135 ; need quiet, 



J 35 5 two caught in one snare, 



242 ; value of, 134 

 Hare-shooting, 141, 142 

 Hawks, hoaxed by, 98 ; kestrels 



and sparrow-hawks, 96, 97 

 Head-carter, a celebrated, 1 1 

 Head-keeper, responsibility of, 6 

 Hedgehogs, 99, 100 

 Honey, wild, 290 

 Horses, shooting, 300 

 Hospitality, a farmer's reverence 



for, 10 

 Hunting and shooting, and 



labourers, 181 



Jackdaws, 80 



Jaundice and pheasant's eggs, 



297 

 Jays, 101 ; best bait for, 103 ; 



check increase of pigeons, 



103 ; cunning of, 102 



Keepers as * dead shots,' 282 ; 

 and diplomacy, 203, 204; 

 and game to eat, 284, 285 ; 

 and pheasants, 107 ; and 

 poison, 285 ; and * refresh- 

 ment,' 210; as honorary exe- 

 cutioners, 300 ; a very popu- 

 lar fallacy concerning, 284 ; 

 remarks on, 198, 199 ; diction 

 of, 201 ; exaggerating, 212 ; 

 keenness of, 207, 208 ; old, 



200; pessimistic, 213; sen- 

 sitiveness of, 208, 209; sports- 

 manship of, 206, 207 ; stock 

 phrases of, 200, 205 ; the bag 

 and tips, 128 ; various, 2, 52, 

 196-198, 202 



Labourer, a cunning old, 239 



Magpies, 16, 101 

 Mole, 289, 298 

 Mouse, 27 

 Muzzle-loaders, a pair of, 3 



Nesting, 294, 295 

 Nests, 289 



Nobility, my contact with high- 

 grade, 276 



Ordeal by fire, an, 6 

 Owls, 103-105 



Partridge coverts, 43 



Partridge-driving, 64 ; a fiasco, 

 70 ; importance of guns being 

 close enough together, 66, 67 ; 

 long waits during, 69 ; my 

 hobby, 66 ; on big shoots and 

 on small, compared, 65 ; sig- 

 nals to start, 71 ; under diffi- 

 culties, 69 



Partridge ground, general run 



o f > 39 



Partridge netters, 28 

 Partridge-pudding, test of the, 



26 

 Partridge-shooting, September, 



52 ; some stories of, 61 

 Partridges, 36, 51 ; and farmers, 



49 ; and roots, 73 ; and tres- 



