Killing For Sport
by Henry S. Salt
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About this eBook
- Editor
- Salt, Henry S., 1851-1939
- Title
- Killing for Sport: Essays by Various Writers
- Credits
- Produced by Jan-Fabian Humann and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- SK: Agriculture: Hunting sports
- Subject
- Hunting -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 49097
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49097
- Release Date
- May 31, 2015
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.NOTE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.PREFACE [1] — FOOTNOTES: — KILLING FOR SPORT
- 5.THE CRUELTY OF SPORT — Fox-Hunting. — The Wild Stag Hunt. — Shooting. — Hare-Hunting and Otter-Hunting. — Spurious Sports. — The Ethics of Sport. — FOOTNOTES:
- 6.SPORT AND AGRICULTURE — Growing Grouse. — Pheasant or Peasant? — FOOTNOTES:
- 7.THE COST OF SPORT — Giving Employment. — The Reality.
- 8.THE ECONOMICS OF HUNTING — The Recreation of the Few.
- 9.FACTS ABOUT THE GAME LAWS — Administration of the Game Laws. — The Gamekeeper. — The Poacher. — Some Results of Game-Preserving. — FOOTNOTES:
- 10.THE DESTRUCTION OF WILD LIFE — Some “Vermin.” — The Killing Mania. — FOOTNOTES:
- 11.THE CALLOUSNESS OF FOX-HUNTING [21] — The Death. — FOOTNOTES:
- 12.BIG-GAME HUNTING — Explosive Bullets. — Temporary Remorse. — The Hunter’s Joy. — “ Live Bait. ” — Primitive Instincts. — The Blood Lust.
- 13.BLOOD-SPORTS AT SCHOOLS — The Eton Hare-Hunt. — The Liberty of the Boys. — Moral Instruction of the Young. — FOOTNOTES:
- 14.SPORTSMEN’S FALLACIES — The Appeal to “Nature.” — Sport a Blessing to Men. — Sport a Blessing to the Animals. — Trust the Specialist. — FOOTNOTES:
- 15.APPENDIX
- 16.APPENDIX — I SPORT AS A TRAINING FOR WAR — FOOTNOTES: — II “BLOODING” — The Blooding of Children. — The Blooding of Hounds. — III THE HUNTING OF GRAVID ANIMALS — FOOTNOTES: — IV DRAG-HUNT VERSUS STAG-HUNT — FOOTNOTES: — V CLAY-PIGEON VERSUS LIVE PIGEON — Clay-Pigeon. — VI COURSING — VII THE GENTLE CRAFT — VIII SPOILING OTHER PEOPLE’S PLEASURE
- 17.INDEX
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