Poachers and Poaching - F.L.S. John Watson

WESTMINSTER:
PRINTED BY NICHOLS AND SONS,
25, PARLIAMENT STREET.

NOTE.

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.

CONTENTS.

	PAGE
CHAPTER I.
POACHERS AND POACHING.—I	[1]
CHAPTER II.
POACHERS AND POACHING.—II	[17]
CHAPTER III.
BADGERS AND OTTERS	[33]
CHAPTER IV.
COURIERS OF THE AIR	[44]
CHAPTER V.
THE SNOW-WALKERS	[86]
CHAPTER VI.
WHEN DARKNESS HAS FALLEN	[94]
CHAPTER VII.
BRITISH BIRDS, THEIR NESTS AND EGGS	[118]
CHAPTER VIII.
MINOR BRITISH GAME BIRDS	[143]
CHAPTER IX.
WATER POACHERS	[162]
CHAPTER X.
WILD DUCKS AND DUCK DECOYING	[195]
CHAPTER XI.
FIELD AND COVERT POACHERS	[223]
CHAPTER XII.
HOMELY TRAGEDY	[245]
CHAPTER XIII.
WORKERS IN WOODCRAFT	[266]
CHAPTER XIV.
SKETCHES FROM NATURE	[287]