304 
Grouse, advantages over part- 
ridges, 43 
Guns, meeting the, 32 
Hares, 133; and holes, 140; 
damage by, 136, 137, 138; 
disease of, 135; need quiet, 
135; two caught in one snare, 
242; value of, 134 
Hare-shooting, 141, 142 
Hawks, hoaxed by, 98 ; kestrels 
and sparrow-hawks, 96, 97 
Head-carter, a celebrated, 11 
Head-keeper, responsibility of, 6 
Hedgehogs, 99, 100 
Honey, wild, 290 
Horses, shooting, 300 
Hospitality, afarmer’sreverence 
for, Io 
Hunting and 
labourers, 181 
shooting, and 
Jackdaws, 80 
Jaundice and pheasant’s eggs, 
297 
Jays, 101; best bait for, 103; 
check increase of pigeons, 
103; cunning of, 102 
Keepers as ‘dead shots,’ 282; 
and diplomacy, 203, 204; 
and game to eat, 284, 285; 
and pheasants, 107; and 
poison, 285; and ‘refresh- 
ment,’ 210; as honorary exe- 
cutioners, 300; a very popu- 
lar fallacy concerning, 284; 
remarks on, 198, 199; diction 
of, 201; exaggerating, 212; 
keenness of, 207, 208; old, 
TEN YEARS OF GAME-KEEPING 
200; pessimistic, 213; sen- 
sitiveness of, 208, 209; sports- 
manship of, 206, 207; stock 
phrases of, 200, 205; the bag 
and tips, 128; various, 2, 52, 
196-198, 202 
Labourer, a cunning old, 239 
Magpies, 16, Io1 
Mole, 289, 298 
Mouse, 27 
Muzzle-loaders, a pair of, 3 
Nesting, 294, 295 
Nests, 289 
Nobility, my contact with high- 
grade, 276 
Ordeal by fire, an, 6 
Owls, 103-105 
Partridge coverts, 43 
Partridge-driving, 64; a fiasco, 
70; importance of guns being 
close enough together, 66, 67 ; 
long waits during, 69; my 
hobby, 66; on big shoots and 
on small, compared, 65; sig- 
nals to start, 71; under diffi- 
culties, 69 
Partridge ground, general run 
of, 39 
Partridge netters, 28 
Partridge-pudding, test of the, 
26 
Partridge-shooting, September, 
523 some stories of, 61 
Partridges, 36, 51 ; and farmers, 
49; and roots, 73; and tres- 
