Killing for Sport: Essays by Various Writers

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INDEX

• Accidents involved by hunting, [66]
• Adams, Maurice, on cost of sport, [45 et seq.]
• Afforestation conflicts with game preservation, [53]
• Agriculture ruined by sport, [38]
• Athletic exercises compared with blood-sports, [129]
• Badgers as “vermin,” [88]
• “Bag,” a six weeks’, [104]
• Balance of Nature upset, [40]
• “Battue,” horrors of the, [83]
• “Battue-shooting,” [13]
• Beagles:
• Eton, [18];
• Tom Brown on Rugby, [125];
• forbidden by original statutes, [117];
• not legalised until 1871, [117];
• Dr. Warre’s attitude re, [116];
• strength of the opposition to, [124]
• Big-game hunting:
• Mr. Ernest Bell on, [101];
• monotony of, [101], [102]
• “Blooding,” [155]
• Blood-sports:
• not manly, [56], [112], [136];
• at schools, [116]
• Buchanan, Robert, quoted, [69], [150]
• Buckhounds, abolition of Royal, [100], [130]
• Buddha, humane teachings of, [29]
• Burmese, the, and compassion, [29]
• Burns, Robert, on shooting, [93]
• Byron, Lord, on angling, [178]
• Callousness of fox-hunting, the, [95]
• Carlisle otter hounds, [30]
• Carpenter, Edward, on sport and agriculture, [34 et seq.]
• Carted deer, [22]
• Civilised versus savage life, [132]
• Clay-pigeons and live pigeons, [166]
• Colquhoun, John, on the poacher, [81]
• Compassion taught by Buddha, [29]
• Compensation, farmers and, [37]
• Cornfields damaged by mice and sparrows, [40]
• Coursing, [170]
• Cricket compared with hunting, [67]
• Cruel sports not public benefits, [60]
• Cruelties of stag-hunting, [10]
• Cruelty, definition of, [2]
• “Cub-hunting,” barbarities of, [9]
• Cultivated area of Great Britain, [53]
• Deer, carted, “accidents” to, [22]
• Deer-forests:
• acreage of, [84];
• effects of, [84]
• De Quincey’s satire, [142]
• Dixie, Lady Florence, quoted, [163]
• Dogs, gamekeepers’, [76]
• Drag-hunt versus stag-hunt, [162]
• Drag-hunting a pleasurable sport, [99], [163]
• Durham, Lord, defends rabbit-coursing, [27]
• Economics of hunting, [60 et seq.]
• Elephants, extermination of, [105]
• “Enclosure Act,” [71]
• Eton Beagles, [18];
• eminent opponents of, [124];
• hare-hunt, the, [116];
• sports, brutality of, [117 et seq.]
• Evolution and animal kinship, [33]
• Expenditure on hunting, [65]
• Explosive bullets, [113]
• Farmers and compensation, [37]
• Farmers injured by hunting, [64]
• Field, The, on tame-deer hunting, [24]
• Fishing, [174]
• “Food-supply” fallacy, the, [83]
• Fortescue, Hon. J., quoted, [109]
• Fox, the hunted, [6], [98]
• Foxes “made in Germany,” [35]
• Fox-hunting, [5 et seq.];
• excuses for, [8];
• H. B. M. Watson on, [95];
• illogical, [97], [98]
• “Foxology,” Dr. Lang’s, [135]
• “Game,” animals included as, [71]
• Gamekeepers:
• brutality of, [79], [86];
• Joseph Arch on, [75];
• Justice Vaughan Williams and, [76];
• increase of, [39];
• Mr. Lloyd George on, [39]
• Game Laws:
• facts about the, [69 et seq.];
• a legal anomaly, [70];
• raison d’être of, [71];
• popular dislike of, [72]
• Grand Duke’s exploit, [103]
• Gravid animals, hunting of, [158]
• Greenwood, George, M.P., on cruelty of sport, [1 et seq.]
• Grouse-moors and farmers, [38]
• Hare-hunting, [16];
• Sir Thomas More on, [16]
• Hedgehogs as “vermin,” [88]
• Heron, destruction of the, [41], [90]
• Home Office, the, and Game Laws, [74]
• Hudson, W. H., quoted, [87 et seq.]
• Hunt, Leigh, quoted, [133], [175]
• Hunter, the, as a “lover of animals,” [93]
• Hunting:
• expensiveness of, [62];
• a limited recreation, [66];
• a rich man’s sport, [62]
• Instincts, “God-planted,” [132]
• Japanese, prowess of the, [57]
• Johnston, Sir Harry:
• on big-game killing, [114];
• on gun-sportsmen, [93];
• on wild life, [85]
• Justice ignored in Game Law administration, [74]
• Justices of the Peace as game-preservers, [73]
• Kropotkin’s, Prince, estimate on produce of soil, [53]
• Land, effect of Game Laws on, [72]
• Legislation affected by hunting, [67]
• “Live bait,” cruelty of using, [108]
• Lloyd, E. B., on destruction of wild life, [85 et seq.]
• Londonderry’s, Lord, economic argument, [51]
• “Lost” animals, sufferings of, [110]
• “Lust, the blood,” [113]
• Lyte, Sir H. Maxwell, on Eton barbarities, [117], [126]
• Martin, Howard, on benefits of sport, [49]
• Meredith, George, quoted, [94]
• Mice and cornfields, [40]
• Modern sport not heroic, [58]
• Monck, W. H. S., on economics of hunting, [60 et seq.]
• Moral defence of sport lacking, [7], [111]
• Natural versus unnatural history, [94]
• Nightingales, destruction of, [89]
• Nyasaland licences, [114]
• Otter hunt at Longtown, [30]
• Otter hunting, [18], [19], [160]
• Penal servitude for night poaching, [75]
• Penalties for trespass, [74]
• Pheasant shooting and vivisection, [1]
• Pheasants, artificially reared, [13], [36], [51], [94]
• Pigeon-shooting:
• not true sport, [21];
• Lord Randolph Churchill on, [166];
• prohibited at Hurlingham, [22], [167]
• Poacher:
• character of the, [80];
• the, as gamekeeper, [81];
• described, [81]
• Poachers, illegal sentences on, [74]
• Polo and hunting compared, [67]
• Preservation of game, [15]
• Professionalism spoiling sport, [59]
• Rabbit-coursing, [24]
• Rabbits, a nuisance to farmers, [39]
• Recreations:
• best available to largest numbers, [62];
• essentials of, [62-64]
• Remorse of the hunter, [106]
• Reserves for wild animals, [44]
• Ribblesdale, Lord, and stag-hunting, [145], [157]
• Roosevelt, T., quoted, [107]
• Rousseau, J. J., on compassion, [31], [32]
• Salt, Henry S., on Sportsmen’s fallacies, [130 et seq.]
• Sargent, Henry R., defends sport, [45]
• Schopenhauer and the basis of morality, [31], [32]
• Select Committee of 1846, [80]
• Sentimentalism versus humanitarianism, [96]
• Seton-Karr, H. W., [131]
• Seton-Karr’s, Sir H., fallacy, [137]
• Shooting, [11 et seq.]
• Small holdings versus sporting interests, [42]
• Sparrows and cornfields, [40]
• Spoiling other people’s pleasure, [179]
• Sport:
• importance of ethical issues, [1];
• as a fetish, [4];
• cost of, [45-59];
• confusion in the use of the term, [56]
• Sports:
• morally unjustifiable if cruel, [2];
• two kinds of, [3];
• spurious, [20 et seq.], [58];
• and agriculture, Edward Carpenter on, [34 et seq.]
• “Sportsman,” a popular appellation, [3]
• Sportsmen’s claims criticised, [139 et seq.];
• logic, [8];
• fallacies, [130]
• Stag-hunting, cruelties of, [10]
• Steel traps, barbarity of, [82]
• Torture unnecessary, [96]
• Unmanliness of pheasant-shooting, [57]
• Unregistered gamekeepers, [80]
• Unsportsmanlike devices, [104]
• “Vermin” exterminated by game-preservers, [88]
• Vivisection and field sports compared, [1]
• Wallace, A. R., on gamekeepers, [76]
• War, sport as training for, [149]
• Warre, Dr., his defence of the Eton hare-hunt, [116], [123]
• Watson, H. B. Marriott, on fox-hunting, [95 et seq.]
• Weasels as “vermin,” [88]
• Wild life, destruction of, [85 et seq.]
• Women and hunting, [11], [19]
• Woodpecker destroyed by gamekeeper, [89]
• Wounded victims of sport, [14]
• Young, need of humane teaching for the, [18]

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