A Gamekeeper's Note-book

About this eBook

Author

Woodward, Marcus

Original Publication

United Kingdom: Edward Arnold,1910.

Credits

Tim Lindell, T. Cosmas and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

SK: Agriculture: Hunting sports

Subject

Natural history -- Great Britain

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 66885

Release Date

December 5, 2021

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.A GAMEKEEPER'S NOTE-BOOK — OWEN JONES AUTHOR OF "TEN YEARS' GAMEKEEPING"
2. 2.PREAMBLE
3. 3.LIST OF CONTENTS — SPRING — SUMMER — AUTUMN — WINTER
4. 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
5. 5.SPRING — The Keepers' Lot — Perquisites — Pets at the Cottage — Wood-Pigeons — The Keeper's Larder — Homely Medicines — The Earth-Stoppers' Feast — The Keeper's Garden — Keepers' Holidays — An Advantage of Marriage — The Keeper seeks a New Berth — In North and South — Poachers— — And their Dogs — Perfect Obedience — The Black List — A South-Country Record — Woodland Gallows — The Gallows Martyrs — Once Trapped, Twice Shy — Cunning Trappers — The Time to Catch a Weasel — Changes of Coats — The Vermin Bag — The Ways of Squirrels — The Squirrel's Appetite — The Departure of Cats — Skeletons and Cobwebs — The Persecuted Magpie — The Merciful Trap — The Rabbit in a Snare — The Sleep of Birds — Animals at Rest — Vigilant Fulfers — The Eyes of Wild Creatures — The Season's End — Beaters' Sport — Tailless Cocks — Preparations — Hungry Rabbits — To Save Underwood — Studies in Fear — The Rookery — When Rooks Build — Ways of the Crows — The Crow as Terrorist — Imperial Rooks — Rook-Pie — Birds for Stock — Old Hens — A Gamekeeping Problem — The Hare Poacher — March Hares — The Cubs' Birthday — Courtiers in Pens — When Hawks Nest — Love-Dances — Names that Puzzle Cockneys — Hares and their Young — Starving Birds — The Egg of Eggs — Pheasants' Eggs — Hens in Cocks' Feathers — About Nesting Pheasants — The Broody Hen — The Frenchmen's Nests — The Last of the Hurdlers — Hurdlers' Science — The Woodman — A Dying Race — Choice Nesting-Places — Hidden Nests — A Mutual Understanding — Many Guardians — Mark's Day — The Old, Old story — The Luck of Pheasant-rearing — From Egg to Larder — Fine Eggs and Good Mothers — The Cub-stealing Shepherd — Lures and Charms — The Law and the Peewit — The Partridge and the Peewit — A Friend to Agriculture — The Rats in the Stacks — Thoughts on Rat-hunting — When Cats are Angered — Hunters' Thirst — Life-in-Death — Ideal Ratters — Ratting without Ferrets
6. 6.SUMMER — A Keeper Chorister — Velveteens — Owls and Hawks — The Bold Sparrow-Hawk — Nest and Young — The Keeper Outwitted — A Jackdaw Nursery — Detective Work — Cattle in the Woods — A Tragedy of the Woodlands — Fox and Partridge — A Study in Perseverance — The Hut in the Woods — Pheasant Chicks — The Roosting Habit — The Badger's Stealth — To Attract Bullfinches — Bird Warnings — A Rabbit's Fates — Game-Birds and Motors — Mysteries of the Nightjar — The Razor-grinder — A Ventriloquist — The Cock and the Hen — On Finding Feathers — When the Dog's Asleep — A Story of Rats — Blood and Water — The Untimely Opening — 'Ware Wire — Witless Pheasants — Nature's Laws — The Partridge June — Favoured Pheasants — A Covey of Ancients — Keepers' Woe — Red-Legs — Water for Game-Birds — Ideal Coverts — The Thirst of Rabbits — Puppies at Walk — Schooling the Puppies — Dogs' Noses — The Thief of the World — The Cubs' Playground — A Fox's Feat — Dog-Washing Days — Shame-faced Cocks — The Turtle-Dove's Summer — The Lagging Landrail — The Truce Ends — The Thieving Jay — The Oldest Writing — Prospects — Useful Work by Game-Birds — Life of the Cornfield — The Keeper's Hopes — Finding the Fox — Harvest Sport — The Luck of the Game — Rabbit-Catchers' Craft — Among the Corn — The Last to Leave — In the Woods — Weasel Families — Mother Stoat — Lurking-places — Studies in Stoat Ways — The First — Early Birds — Walking-up — Thoughts on Cubbing — Wines of the Country
7. 7.AUTUMN — The Verdict of the Season — Weather to pray for — After the Opening — An October Day — Low Flight and High — Wily Grouse Cocks — Rewards for Cubs — "Various"—the Landrail — Sport amid the Shocks — "Mark" — The Keeper's Dogs — Woodcock Owls — Dogs that Despise Woodcock — Pets of Pigs — Some Deals in Dogs — Marked Birds — Colour-Changes in Feathers — Nature's Healing — A Little Story — Accidents to Hares — Hares no longer Speedy — Starling Hosts — Trials of a Copser — Wild Birds in Cages — Truffles — Retriever's Usefulness — Nuts and Mice — The Hand of Time — The Keeper grows Old — Rabbit Ways in Autumn — The Rabbits' House-cleaning — The Guileless Countryman — Sporting Policemen — The Woodcraft of Gipsies — Gipsy Lies — Long-netters — Training Rabbits — Why Birds Flock — The Companies of Rats — The Fall — Late and Early Autumns — Hares in the Garden — Food for Pheasants — The Lingering Leaves — Planning Big Shoots — Plots and Counter-Plots — Indian Summer — Winter Sleep — A Dish of Hedgehog
8. 8.WINTER — Rustic Wit — The Oak City — Acorns — Plump Rabbits — The Stoat's Hunting — Mysteries of Scent — The Axe in the Coverts — The Uses of Underwood — The Tipping System — Free Suppers for the Fox — Clues to the Thief — Muzzled by a Snare — Cunning Rascals — A Hunting Argument — The Clever Terrier — Born Retrieving — Some Sporting Types — Victims of Wire — Stoat or Weasel? — "The Horrid Badger" — Chalk-Pit Haunts — When the Fox sleeps — When Ferret meets Fox — February Rabbits — The Moucher's Excuse — When Hounds come — When Hounds are gone — Poachers' Weapons — Moles' Skins for Furs — Covert-shooting Problems — "Cocks only"—to compromise — What a Cat may kill — A Cockney Story — Hares in Small Holdings — The Sins of the Father — The Pheasants' Roosting-Trees — The Fox in the Storm — Foxes at Pheasant Shoots — Pheasants that go to Ground — Pheasants' Doomsday — The Hungry Retriever — The Old Wood — Memories of Muzzle-loaders — Relics of the Great Days — Cleaning a Muzzle-loader — The Knowing Beater — Old Friends — What Shepherds enjoy — Lives of Labour — In the Folds — Shepherds' Care — Winter Partridge-driving — The Fear of Snow — Hard-Weather Prophets — Weather-wise Beasts and Birds — Green Winters — What Rainy Days bring — Cubs at Christmas — Work for Rainy Days — The Old Lumber — When Foxes mate — A Keeper's Dreams — A Death-bed Vision — Christmas Sport — Cunning Cock Pheasants — A Dish of Greens — Christmas Shoots — Woodcock Talk — Spare the Hens — A Free-and-Easy — A Keeper's Ghost-Story — Old Friends in Velveteen — The Converted Shepherd — A Final Story — Careful Wives — "What Her was Like"
9. 9.INDEX

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