Poachers and Poaching

POACHERS AND POACHING
Knowledge never learned in schools.
LURCHERS.
JOHN WATSON, F.L.S.
AUTHOR OF NATURE AND WOODCRAFT, SYLVAN FOLK, BRITISH SPORTING FISHES, EDITOR OF THE CONFESSIONS OF A POACHER.
With a Frontispiece
LONDON: CHAPMAN AND HALL LIMITED 1891
WESTMINSTER: PRINTED BY NICHOLS AND SONS, 25, PARLIAMENT STREET.
These chapters originally appeared as articles in Macmillan's Magazine , the Cornhill Magazine , the National Review , the Gentleman's Magazine , the St. James's Gazette and the Pall Mall Gazette ; and I have to thank the Editors and Proprietors of these periodicals for permission to reprint them. The chapter entitled Water Poachers is reprinted by permission from the Nineteenth Century .
As to the facts in the volume, they are mainly taken at first hand from nature.
J. W.
POACHERS AND POACHING.