CONTENTS 



Preface 



PACE 



xiii 



^ In Praise of Hawking i 



A Marsh Walk in May 13 



The Wheatear on the South Downs 27 



Pagham Harbour Past and Present - 41 



Deer-Leaps 63 



Antlers 74 



A Wet Day on the Hill 84 



The Ways of Grouse 92 



Blackcock Shooting 10 i 



The Decrease of Blackgame 108 



The Distribution of the Red-Legged Partridge 113 



Catching Woodpigeons 129 



The Horse and its Historians 138 



The Origin of the Domestic Cat 145 



Hunting with the Cheeta 170 



Sheep-dog Trials- 178 



SwAN--xrppiNG 185 



Bird-life on the Broads 201 



Some Seventeenth-Century Decoys 213 



The Oldest Book on Fishing 222 



