INDEX 305 
passing dogs, 48; cheapness 
of, 48; correct estimate of 
their numbers, 25; damage 
by, 50; destruction of nests 
of, 43; elusiveness of, 55, 56; 
fairyland of, 39; feeding, 42; 
French, 42; habit of, 73; in 
pheasant coverts, 42 ; nesting 
sites of, 44, 46; only fault of, 
49 ; scarcity of, 38; the most 
attractive game-birds, 37; the 
fewer the better they lie, 57; 
tired and the bag, 75; to 
insure finding your, 42; walk- 
ing up, 53; wildness of, 53 ; 
winter food of, 41 
Pheasants, 107, 113, 122, !126, 
128 ; advantages of, 109 ; and 
foxes, 112; as mothers, I10 
III, 112; in small and in 
large coverts, 124; propor- 
tion that should be killed, 281; 
straying, 125; their eggs and 
frost, 113; theory of hatch- 
ing, 119, 120,121; whatisa 
‘reared’ pheasant? 280; why 
preferred to partridges, 108 ; 
wild-bred, 114; wild versus 
hand-reared, 122, 123, 124 
Pheasant-rearing, 6, 115-118 
Pheasant-shooting, bad guns, 
127; in thick laurels, 125; 
in foggy weather, 131, 132; 
my first day, 125; notes on, 
129, 130, 131 
Poachers, 27; dead, 28; and 
policy, 246; attacked by, 2 
excuses of, 245 ; instances of, 
244; sly,245; trespassers and, 
232; two with one trap, 19 
Poison, keepers and, 285 
Primrose-pickers, 233 
Punctures, two original, 13 
Rabbits, 139, 279 ; a murderous 
shot at, 286; and rats, 138; 
as medicine, 279; complaints 
concerning, 50; keeping down 
the, 286, 287; on partridge- 
ground, 17; orders to get 
down the, 12; seven shot in 
succession, 14 
Rabbit ‘ pudd’n,’ several rounds 
of, 13 
Rabbit-shooters, 192 
Rabbit-shooting incidents, 142, 
143, 144, 145 
Rabbit-snarers, 140 
Rakings, 41 
Rats, 76; in corn-ricks, 16; 
poisoning, 77, 78, 79 
Retriever nd rats, 255, 256; 
a young, 32; my favourite, 
255; death of my old, 259; 
Labrador, a, 257 
Reward for lost dog, 290, 291, 
292 
Rooks, 40, 76, 79-86 
Rye-grass, 33 
September, saluting, 29 
Shepherds, 31, 241 
Shooters and their cartridges, 
187; and their guns, 189, 
190; etiquette of, 194; false 
economy of, 190; fidgety, 194 ; 
greedy, 187, 188; in weird 
raiment, 190, 191; late, 185; 
mixed bag of, 182, 183, 184, 
185; perfumed, 188; who 
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