LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 
TO FACE PAGE 
Tethering the Sitting Hens - Frontispiece 
The Keeper’s Kitchen - : : ” 
Ferrets that a Few Seconds before were Furiously Ratting - 2 
My Old Retriever - - - ar oh —ce a 2 
Full-dress Uniform = - - - - 2 
There’s many a Slip between a Good Hatch and September 26 
What a Fox left of a Pheasant Sitting on Fourteen Eggs - 26 
Section of Woodcock’s Wing showing Position of ‘Pin’ 
Feather - . - = 2 38 
Rook and Partridge with Abnormal Mandible - 38 
Young Weasels : - 4 4 . - 38 
April 26, 1908: Tracks of French Partridge to her Nest in 
Tuft of Dead Grass : . 40 
April 26, 1908 - - : - - - - 40 
Partridge on her Nest - - 48 
Offto Feed - - - - 48 
All Hands to the Rats - - = 78 
Mistress of the Situation - - 7 = 78 
A Condensed ‘ Gallows’ - - : 7 86 
Naturally mummified Stoats - : 86 
An Ordinary ‘Gallows’ - - 86 
Young Sparrow-hawks - 98 
A Pheasant Usurps a Thrush’s Nest built on the Ground 114 
The Rearing Field —- - - - : 114 
Fixing Decoys on a High Hedge 150 
Placing Decoys on Wheat-shocks : 
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