CONTENTS ix 
PAGES 
—Hints—Habits of pigeons—A pigeon and astone—Turtle- 
doves— A warm corner— Pigeons at ponds— Food of 
pigeons—Pigeon diphtheria—A slice of Iuck—Winter 
work - - 147—166 
CHAPTER XI 
FOXES AND THE EVERLASTING QUESTION 
How some foxes were well looked after—No cause, no conflict 
—Give and take—Commercial aspect of hunting and shoot- 
ing—The fox tax—Suggestions—Foxes and partridges— 
Rabbits, foxes, and birds—Which pays the labourer better, 
hunting or shooting? - - - 167—181 
CHAPTER XII 
TYPES OF SHOOTERS 
The interfering shooter—The ‘sketchy’ shooter— The late guest 
—The perfumed shooter—The ‘winger’—The man in 
weird raiment—Some incidents—The fidgety shooter 182—195 
CHAPTER XIII 
MY BROTHER KEEPERS 
Varieties of keeper—The {backbiting keeper—‘ Previous to a 
cold’—The privileged keeper—The diplomatic keeper— 
Stock phrases—Keepers as sportsmen—The jealousy of 
keepers — The extravagant keeper — The exaggerating 
keeper—The ‘some’ birds keeper -  196—213 
CHAPTER XIV 
BEATERS AND STOPS 
The shooter a beater appreciates—Bad guns, bad beating—The 
beater question—Beaters ancient and modern—A beater’s 
business — Host, keeper, and beaters —Complaints of 
beaters—Poachers as beaters—Stops—Beaters’ strikes— 
The beaters’ lunch—How to manage beaters—The beaters’ 
supper - - - - - 214—231 
CHAPTER XV 
TRESPASSERS AND POACHERS 
A lady and her dog—Primrose-pickers—Egg-poachers—Wilful 
destruction of eggs—A lump of coal—Gipsies—Inferences 
—An old shepherd—Unsuspected poachers—Plausible 
excuses of poachers—Poachers and policy - - 232246 
