A Gamekeeper's Note-book

by Owen Jones; Marcus Woodward

September 1910.

LIST OF CONTENTS

SPRING

	PAGE
The Keeper's Lot	[1]
Perquisites	[2]
Pets at the Cottage	[3]
Wood-Pigeons	[4]
The Keeper's Larder	[5]
Homely Medicines	[7]
The Earth-Stoppers' Feast	[8]
The Keeper's Garden	[9]
Keepers' Holidays	[12]
An Advantage of Marriage	[13]
The Keeper seeks a New Berth	[14]
In North and South	[15]
Poachers—	[15]
And their Dogs	[16]
Perfect Obedience	[17]
The Black List	[18]
A South-Country Record	[19]
Woodland Gallows	[20]
The Gallows Martyrs	[21]
Once Trapped, Twice Shy	[22]
Cunning Trappers	[23]
The Time to Catch a Weasel	[24]
Changes of Coats	[25]
The Vermin Bag	[26]
The Ways of Squirrels	[27]
The Squirrel's Appetite	[28]
The Departure of Cats	[29]
Skeletons and Cobwebs	[30]
The Persecuted Magpie	[31]
The Merciful Trap	[32]
The Rabbit in a Snare	[33]
The Sleep of Birds	[34]
Animals at Rest	[36]
Vigilant Fulfers	[37]
The Eyes of Wild Creatures	[38]
The Season's End	[39]
Beaters' Sport	[41]
Tailless Cocks	[43]
Preparations	[44]
Hungry Rabbits	[44]
To Save Underwood	[45]
Studies in Fear	[46]
The Rookery	[48]
When Rooks Build	[49]
Ways of the Crows	[49]
The Crow as Terrorist	[51]
Imperial Rooks	[51]
Rook-Pie	[52]
Birds for Stock	[53]
Old Hens	[55]
A Gamekeeping Problem	[56]
The Hare Poacher	[57]
March Hares	[58]
The Cubs' Birthday	[59]
Courtiers in Pens	[60]
When Hawks Nest	[62]
Love-Dances	[63]
Names that Puzzle Cockneys	[63]
Hares and their Young	[66]
Starving Birds	[67]
The Egg of Eggs	[68]
Pheasants' Eggs	[69]
Hens in Cocks' Feathers	[71]
About Nesting Pheasants	[71]
The Broody Hen	[73]
The Frenchmen's Nests	[76]
The Last of the Hurdlers	[77]
Hurdlers' Science	[78]
The Woodman	[79]
A Dying Race	[79]
Choice Nesting-Places	[80]
Hidden Nests	[81]
A Mutual Understanding	[82]
Many Guardians	[82]
Mark's Day	[84]
The Old, Old Story	[85]
The Luck of Pheasant-Rearing	[86]
From Egg to Larder	[88]
Fine Eggs and good Mothers	[88]
The Cub-Stealing Shepherd	[89]
Lures and Charms	[90]
The Law and the Peewit	[92]
The Partridge and the Peewit	[93]
A Friend to Agriculture	[93]
The Rats in the Stacks	[94]
Thoughts on Rat-hunting	[95]
When Cats are Angered	[96]
Hunters' Thirst	[96]
Life-in-Death	[97]
Ideal Ratters	[98]
Ratting without Ferrets	[100]

SUMMER

A Keeper Chorister	[103]
Velveteens	[104]
Owls and Hawks	[105]
The Bold Sparrow-Hawk	[106]
Nest and Young	[108]
The Keeper Outwitted	[110]
A Jackdaw Nursery	[111]
Detective Work	[112]
Cattle in the Woods	[112]
A Tragedy of the Woodlands	[114]
Fox and Partridge	[114]
A Study in Perseverance	[115]
The Hut in the Woods	[116]
Pheasant Chicks	[117]
The Roosting Habit	[119]
The Badger's Stealth	[121]
To Attract Bullfinches	[123]
Bird Warnings	[123]
A Rabbit's Fates	[124]
Game-Birds and Motors	[125]
Mysteries of the Nightjar	[126]
The Razor-grinder	[127]
A Ventriloquist	[127]
The Cock and the Hen	[129]
On Finding Feathers	[130]
When the Dog's Asleep	[131]
A Story of Rats	[132]
Blood and Water	[133]
The Untimely Opening	[134]
'Ware Wire	[135]
Witless Pheasants	[135]
Nature's Laws	[136]
The Partridge June	[137]
Favoured Pheasants	[138]
A Covey of Ancients	[140]
Keepers' Woe	[141]
Red-Legs	[141]
Water for Game-Birds	[142]
Ideal Coverts	[144]
The Thrist of Rabbits	[145]
Puppies at Walk	[145]
Schooling the Puppies	[147]
Dogs' Noses	[148]
The Thief of the World	[149]
The Cubs' Playground	[151]
A Fox's Feat	[152]
Dog-Washing Days	[153]
Shame-faced Cocks	[155]
The Turtle-Dove's Summer	[157]
The Lagging Landrail	[157]
The Truce Ends	[159]
The Thieving Jay	[160]
The Oldest Writing	[161]
Prospects	[162]
Useful Work by Game-Birds	[163]
Life of the Cornfield	[164]
The Keeper's Hopes	[165]
Finding the Fox	[167]
Harvest Sport	[167]
The Luck of the Game	[169]
Rabbit-Catchers' Craft	[170]
Among the Corn	[172]
The Last to Leave	[172]
In the Woods	[173]
Weasel Families	[173]
Mother Stoat	[174]
Lurking-Places	[176]
Studies in Stoat Ways	[177]
The First	[179]
Early Birds	[179]
Walking-up	[180]
Thoughts on Cubbing	[181]
Wines of the Country	[183]

AUTUMN

The Verdict of the Season	[185]
Weather to pray for	[187]
After the Opening	[187]
An October Day	[188]
Low Flight and High	[189]
Wily Grouse Cocks	[189]
Rewards for Cubs	[190]
"Various"—the Landrail	[191]
Sport amid the Shocks	[192]
"Mark"	[193]
The Keeper's Dogs	[195]
Woodcock Owls	[196]
Dogs that Despise Woodcock	[196]
Pets of Pigs	[198]
Some Deals in Dogs	[199]
Marked Birds	[200]
Colour-Changes in Feathers	[200]
Nature's Healing	[201]
A Little Story	[202]
Accidents to Hares	[202]
Hares no longer Speedy	[203]
Starling Hosts	[204]
Trials of a Copser	[205]
Wild Birds in Cages	[205]
Truffles	[206]
Retriever's Usefulness	[206]
Nuts and Mice	[207]
The Hand of Time	[209]
The Keeper grows Old	[210]
Rabbit Ways in Autumn	[211]
The Rabbits' House-cleaning	[212]
The Guileless Countryman	[213]
Sporting Policemen	[214]
The Woodcraft of Gipsies	[215]
Gipsy Lies	[217]
Long-netters	[219]
Training Rabbits	[219]
Why Birds Flock	[221]
The Companies of Rats	[222]
The Fall	[223]
Late and Early Autumns	[223]
Hares in the Garden	[224]
Food for Pheasants	[225]
The Lingering Leaves	[226]
Planning Big Shoots	[227]
Plots and Counter-Plots	[228]
Indian Summer	[229]
Winter Sleep	[230]
A Dish of Hedgehog	[231]

WINTER

Rustic Wit	[233]
The Oak City	[233]
Acorns	[234]
Plump Rabbits	[236]
The Stoat's Hunting	[237]
Mysteries of Scent	[238]
The Axe in the Coverts	[241]
The Uses of Underwood	[242]
The Tipping System	[243]
Free Suppers for the Fox	[245]
Clues to the Thief	[246]
Muzzled by a Snare	[247]
Cunning Rascals	[248]
A Hunting Argument	[249]
The Clever Terrier	[251]
Born Retrieving	[252]
Some Sporting Types	[252]
Victims of Wire	[253]
Stoat or Weasel?	[253]
"The Horrid Badger"	[254]
Chalk-Pit Haunts	[255]
When the Fox sleeps	[255]
When Ferret meets Fox	[256]
February Rabbits	[257]
The Moucher's Excuse	[257]
When Hounds come	[258]
When Hounds are gone	[259]
Poachers' Weapons	[260]
Moles' Skins for Furs	[261]
Covert-shooting Problems	[262]
"Cocks only"—to compromise	[262]
What a Cat may kill	[263]
A Cockney Story	[264]
Hares in Small Holdings	[265]
The Sins of the Father	[266]
The Pheasants' Roosting-Trees	[267]
The Fox in the Storm	[268]
Foxes at Pheasant Shoots	[268]
Pheasants that go to Ground	[269]
Pheasants' Doomsday	[270]
The Hungry Retriever	[270]
The Old Wood	[271]
Memories of Muzzle-loaders	[272]
Relics of the Great Days	[273]
Cleaning a Muzzle-loader	[274]
The Knowing Beater	[275]
Old Friends	[276]
What Shepherds enjoy	[277]
Lives of Labour	[277]
In the Folds	[278]
Shepherds' Care	[279]
Winter Partridge-driving	[279]
The Fear of Snow	[281]
Hard-Weather Prophets	[282]
Weather-wise Beasts and Birds	[282]
Green Winters	[284]
What Rainy Days bring	[285]
Cubs at Christmas	[286]
Work for Rainy Days	[287]
The Old Lumber	[288]
When Foxes mate	[289]
A Keeper's Dreams	[290]
A Death-bed Vision	[291]
Christmas Sport	[292]
Cunning Cock Pheasants	[293]
A Dish of Greens	[293]
Christmas Shoots	[294]
Woodcock Talk	[295]
Spare the Hens	[296]
A Free-and-Easy	[297]
A Keeper's Ghost-Story	[298]
Old Friends in Velveteen	[300]
The Converted Shepherd	[302]
A Final Story	[302]
Careful Wives	[303]
"What Her was Like"	[304]
Index	[305]