INDEX 
AccIDENTs, shooting, 280 
Advertisements of keepers seek- 
ing berths, 6 
Bags, keepers judged by, 293 
Beaters, 214, 217, 218, 221; as 
critics of shooting, 222; beer 
and, 228; bets of, 221 ; cater- 
ing for, 226, 227; poachers 
as, 219; sneaking game, 219, 
220; strikes of, 223, 224, 225 
supper, 231; varieties of, 215, 
216, 230 
Boar-hound, a Canadian, 232 
Brother-in-law, a famous, 14 
Cartridge-bags, 33, 277, 278 
Cartridges, ‘my,’ 7 
Cats, 3, 283, 286 
Clumber, a beauty, 254, 255 
Crane, bagging of a, 17 
Cubs, to dig out a litter of, 19 
Dells, three, 12 
Details, importance of, 7 
Dogs, 247, 248, 250; feats of, 
283, 284; feuds of, 257; 
found dead, 262; friendships 
between, 257; ;mad, 260; 
poaching and _ trespassing, 
261 ; sales of, 249 ; stories of, 
263, 264, 290; useful, 256; 
ways of, 258; wild, 248 
Doves, their food, 154 
Drives, blank, 42 
Eggs, weak-germed, 40 
Egg-poachers, 236, 240 
Egg-stealers, human, 20 
Egg-stealing, 234 ; instances of, 
236, 237; by gipsies, 238 
Feeding partridges, 42 
Ferrets, 16, 288 
Finger-trick, the, 5 
Foxes, 19, 167; a keeper’s 
eccentric custom with, 167, 
168; and cock pheasants, 
178; and a laconic keeper, 
173 ; and partridges, 45, 174, 
175; and rabbits, 177; and 
shooting interests, 169, 170, 
171; and uncouth sounds, 
178; damage to game by, 
169; fallacies concerning, 178, 
179; are vegetarians, 178 
Gamekeeper, tipping the, 265 
Game-keeping as a road to for- 
tune, 302; first attempt at, 4 
Gipsies, 20, 21, 22 
_ Greens, a shower of, 162 
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