INDEX 



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passing dogs, 48 ; cheapness 

 of, 48; correct estimate of 

 their numbers, 25 ; damage 

 by, 50 ; destruction of nests 

 of, 43 ; elusiveness of, 55, 56 ; 

 fairyland of, 39 ; feeding, 42 ; 

 French, 42 ; habit of, 73 ; in 

 pheasant coverts, 42 ; nesting 

 sites of, 44, 46 ; only fault of, 

 49 ; scarcity of, 38 ; the most 

 attractive game-birds, 37 ; the 

 fewer the better they lie, 57 ; 

 tired and the bag, 75 ; to 

 insure finding your, 42 ; walk- 

 ing up, 53 ; wildness of, 53 ; 

 winter food of, 41 



Pheasants, 107, 113, 122, 126, 

 128 ; advantages of, 109 ; and 

 foxes, 112; as mothers, no 

 in, 112; in small and in 

 large coverts, 124; propor- 

 tion that should be killed, 281 ; 

 straying, 125 ; their eggs and 

 frost, 113; theory of hatch- 

 ing, 119, 120, 121 ; what is a 

 'reared' pheasant? 280; why 

 preferred to partridges, 108 ; 

 wild-bred, 114; wild versus 

 hand-reared, 122, 123, 124 



Pheasant-rearing, 6, 115-118 



Pheasant-shooting, bad guns, 

 127 ; in thick laurels, 125 ; 

 in foggy weather, 131, 132; 

 my first day, 125; notes on, 

 129, 130, 131 



Poachers, 27 ; dead, 28 ; and 

 policy, 246 ; attacked by, 2 ; 

 excuses of, 245 ; instances of, 

 244; sly, 245; trespassers and, 

 232 ; two with one trap, 19 



Poison, keepers and, 285 

 Primrose-pickers, 233 

 Punctures, two original, 13 



Rabbits, 139, 279 ; a murderous 

 shot at, 286 ; and rats, 138 ; 

 as medicine, 279 ; complaints 

 concerning, 50 ; keeping down 

 the, 286, 287 ; on partridge- 

 ground, 17; orders to get 

 down the, 12 ; seven shot in 

 succession, 14 



Rabbit ' pudd'n,' several rounds 

 of, 13 



Rabbit-shooters, 192 



Rabbit-shooting incidents, 142, 

 143, 144, 145 



Rabbit-snarers, 140 



Rakings, 41 



Rats, 76; in corn-ricks, 16 ; 

 poisoning, 77, 78, 79 



Retriever and rats, 255, 256 ; 

 a young, 32 ; my favourite, 

 255 ; death of my old, 259 ; 

 Labrador, a, 257 



Reward for lost dog, 290, 291, 

 292 



Rooks, 40, 76, 79-86 



Rye-grass, 33 



September, saluting, 29 



Shepherds, 31, 241 



Shooters and their cartridges, 

 187 ; and their guns, 189, 

 190 ; etiquette of, 194 ; false 

 economy of, 190; fidgety, 194 ; 

 greedy, 187, 188 ; in weird 

 raiment, 190, 191 ; late, 185 ; 

 mixed bag of, 182, 183, 184, 

 185; perfumed, 188; who 

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