| [CHAPTER I.] | Page |
| The Ferret Family—Crossed with the Polecat—Choosing
Ferrets—Hutches—Feeding Ferrets—"Bar
the Tail"—Handling Ferrets | 8 |
| [CHAPTER II.] | |
| Bag versus Box—Ferrets Fighting—The Ratting Spade—Ratting
Tools—Hints to Schoolmasters—Learning
Dog-Language—With a Scold in the Voice—Dogs'
Kennel—Treating Dogs Kindly—Dogs in
their Proper Place | 23 |
| [CHAPTER III.] | |
| Aristocratic versus Plutocratic—Come-by-Chance—Chance's
Friend—Nondescript Tinker—Grindum—How
I got Grindum—Grindum's Friends—Jack
and his Sister—"Jack Took Me"—End of an
Ugly Story—Grindum's First Rat—Pepper and
Wasp | 42 |
| [CHAPTER IV.] | |
| A Day's Ratting—An Autumn Walk—"Steady, Dogs,
Steady"—A Ferret Disabled—Rats up a Pollard—A
Rat-catcher's Picnic—Rats in a Drain—A
Weary Walk Home—"Kennel, Dogs, Kennel" | 67 |
| [CHAPTER V.] | |
| A Poor Day's Ratting—A Rat in a Queer Place—Rats
in my Lady's Chamber—Rats in a House—Slaughter
in a Cellar—Dead Rats in a House | 85 |
| [CHAPTER VI.] | |
| A November Day—A Laid-up Ferret—A Tramp
Home in the Wet—A Snug Evening—Things
Students should Know—Muzzling Ferrets—Sucking
Blood—A Strange Use for a Dog's Tail | 96 |
| [CHAPTER VII.] | |
| Rabbit Catching—Tools for Rabbit Catching—An
Easy Day's Rabbiting—Ferreting a Bank—A Deep
Dig in the Sand—A Day with the Purse Nets—Necessity
of Silence—Ferrets without Muzzles—How
to Kill Rabbits | 113 |
| [CHAPTER VIII.] | |
| Trip to the Seaside—Surveying the Hunting Ground—A
View from the Cliffs—A Sea View—The Rector's
Daughter—Doctoring the Burrows—Running out
Nets—"Hie in, Good Dogs" | 130 |
| [CHAPTER IX.] | |
| The Beginning of a Storm—A Ship in Distress—The
Village Harbour—A Fisherman's Home—Little
Jack, the Cripple—Waiting for the Boats—A
Rough Old Fish-Wife—The Return of the Fishermen | 147 |
| [CHAPTER X.] | |
| The Rector's Story—A Ship in Danger Running
Straight on the Rocks—To the Rescue—Watching
the Boat—Breaking up of the Ship—Beyond the
Storms of Life—Life in the Little One—Nature's
Gifts—What a Hodge-Podge | 165 |