TEN YEARS OF GAME-KEEPING 



jump to conclusions, 193, 



194 

 Shooting accidents, 280 ; cats, 



282, 283 ; dogs, 261 ; horses, 



300 ; parties, mimic, 3 

 Shots, firing of long, 301 

 Snares and snarers, 242, 243, 



244 



Snipe, the, 37 



Sportsmen, 17, 30, 53 



Stoats, 86-89, 9 5 9 1 ; and eggs, 

 95 ; and ferrets, 91 ; and rats, 

 94 ; and weasels, 17 ; difficult 

 to shoot, 92 ; food of, 93 



Stopping-feast, incidents of, 296 



Stops, importance of, 222 ; 

 women as, 222, 223 



Terriers, 251, 252, 253 



Tip, hint for a, 267, 268; my 



first, 34, 270 ; my last, 275 ; 



my record, 271 ; reception of 



a, 266, 273 ; totals, 269 

 Tips, assorted, 271, 272, 273 ; 



average yearly bag of, 302 ; 



gone astray, 274; what are 



they compared to success? 



126 



Tipping, 265, 267-269 

 Trespassers, 232 

 Trick, the finger, 5 



Trigger, hauling at the, 15 

 Towering, 58 



Town compared to country, 300 

 Town-life, 4 



Valets, 277 



Vermin and preservation, 105, 

 1 06 ; salt of gamekeeper's 

 life, 301 ; sport with, 76 



Wild-fowl, 165, 1 66 



Wires, 'slippin' down,' 10 



Woodcock, 3, 37, 299 



Wood-pigeons, 147 ; digestive 

 powers of, 161 ; extraordinary 

 food of, 157, 158; family shots 

 at, 164; feeding on greens, 

 161 ; gluttony of, 162; sport 

 with, 148; various, 153, 159, 

 163 



Wood - pigeon shooting and 

 thunder, 156; at roosting- 

 time, 159, 1 60 ; curious, 149 ; 

 general hints on, 148 ; in 

 foggy weather, 162, 163 ; near 

 ripening corn, 149, 150, 151, 

 I 5 2 > X 53 5 near water, 156, 

 157 



Youngster, ' a right down fine,' 

 12 



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