LIST OF CONTENTS 



XI 



WINTER 



Rustic Wit 

 The Oak City . 

 Acorns 



Plump Rabbits . 

 The Stoat's Hunting . 

 Mysteries of Scent 

 The Axe in the Coverts 

 The Uses of Underwood 

 The Tipping System . 

 Free Suppers for the Fox 

 Clues to the Thief 

 Muzzled by a Snare . 

 Cunning Rascals 

 A Hunting Argument . 

 The Clever Terrier 

 Born Retrieving 

 Some Sporting Types . 

 Victims of Wire 

 Stoat or Weasel ? 

 "The Horrid Badger " 

 Chalk-Pit Haunts 

 When the Fox sleeps . 

 When Ferret meets Fox 

 February Rabbits 

 The Moucher's Excuse 

 When Hounds come . 

 When Hounds are gone 

 Poachers' Weapons . 

 Moles' Skins for Furs . 

 Covert-shooting Problems 



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"Cocks only" to com- 

 promise . . .262 

 What a Cat may kill . . 263 

 A Cockney Story . . 264 

 Hares in Small Holdings . 265 

 The Sins of the Father . 266 

 The Pheasants' Roosting- 



Trees . . .267 



The Fox in the Storm . 268 



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Foxes at Pheasant Shoots 

 Pheasants that go to Ground 269 



Pheasants' Doomsday . 270 



The Hungry Retriever . 270 



The Old Wood . . .271 

 Memories of Muzzle-loaders 272 



Relics of the Great Days . 273 



Cleaning a Muzzle-loader . 274 



The Knowing Beater . . 275 



Old Friends . . .276 



What Shepherds enjoy . 277 



Lives of Labour . . 277 



In the Folds . .- . 278 



Shepherds' Care . . 279 



Winter Partridge-driving . 279 



The Fear of Snow . . 281 



Hard- Weather Prophets . 282 

 Weather-wiseBeastsandBirds 282 



Green Winters . . .284 



What Rainy Days bring . 285 



Cubs at Christmas . . 286 



Work for Rainy Days . 287 



The Old Lumber . . 288 



When Foxes mate . . 289 



A Keeper's Dreams . . 290 



A Death-bed Vision . . 291 



Christmas Sport . . 292 



Cunning Cock Pheasants . 293 



A Dish of Greens . . 293 



Christmas Shoots . . 294 



Woodcock Talk . . 295 



Spare the Hens . . .296 



A Free-and-Easy . . 297 



A Keeper's Ghost-Story . 298 



Old Friends in Velveteen . 300 



The Converted Shepherd . 302 



A Final Story . . .302 



Careful Wives . . .303 



" What Her was Like " . 304 



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