Chapters (610)
- A GAMEKEEPER'S NOTE-BOOK
- OWEN JONES AUTHOR OF "TEN YEARS' GAMEKEEPING"
- PREAMBLE
- LIST OF CONTENTS
- SPRING
- SUMMER
- AUTUMN
- WINTER
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- SPRING
- The Keepers' Lot
- Perquisites
- Pets at the Cottage
- Wood-Pigeons
- The Keeper's Larder
- Homely Medicines
- The Earth-Stoppers' Feast
- The Keeper's Garden
- Keepers' Holidays
- An Advantage of Marriage
- The Keeper seeks a New Berth
- In North and South
- Poachers—
- And their Dogs
- Perfect Obedience
- The Black List
- A South-Country Record
- Woodland Gallows
- The Gallows Martyrs
- Once Trapped, Twice Shy
- Cunning Trappers
- The Time to Catch a Weasel
- Changes of Coats
- The Vermin Bag
- The Ways of Squirrels
- The Squirrel's Appetite
- The Departure of Cats
- Skeletons and Cobwebs
- The Persecuted Magpie
- The Merciful Trap
- The Rabbit in a Snare
- The Sleep of Birds
- Animals at Rest
- Vigilant Fulfers
- The Eyes of Wild Creatures
- The Season's End
- Beaters' Sport
- Tailless Cocks
- Preparations
- Hungry Rabbits
- To Save Underwood
- Studies in Fear
- The Rookery
- When Rooks Build
- Ways of the Crows
- The Crow as Terrorist
- Imperial Rooks
- Rook-Pie
- Birds for Stock
- Old Hens
- A Gamekeeping Problem
- The Hare Poacher
- March Hares
- The Cubs' Birthday
- Courtiers in Pens
- When Hawks Nest
- Love-Dances
- Names that Puzzle Cockneys
- Hares and their Young
- Starving Birds
- The Egg of Eggs
- Pheasants' Eggs
- Hens in Cocks' Feathers
- About Nesting Pheasants
- The Broody Hen
- The Frenchmen's Nests
- The Last of the Hurdlers
- Hurdlers' Science
- The Woodman
- A Dying Race
- Choice Nesting-Places
- Hidden Nests
- A Mutual Understanding
- Many Guardians
- Mark's Day
- The Old, Old story
- The Luck of Pheasant-rearing
- From Egg to Larder
- Fine Eggs and Good Mothers
- The Cub-stealing Shepherd
- Lures and Charms
- The Law and the Peewit
- The Partridge and the Peewit
- A Friend to Agriculture
- The Rats in the Stacks
- Thoughts on Rat-hunting
- When Cats are Angered
- Hunters' Thirst
- Life-in-Death
- Ideal Ratters
- Ratting without Ferrets
- SUMMER
- A Keeper Chorister
- Velveteens
- Owls and Hawks
- The Bold Sparrow-Hawk
- Nest and Young
- The Keeper Outwitted
- A Jackdaw Nursery
- Detective Work
- Cattle in the Woods
- A Tragedy of the Woodlands
- Fox and Partridge
- A Study in Perseverance
- The Hut in the Woods
- Pheasant Chicks
- The Roosting Habit
- The Badger's Stealth
- To Attract Bullfinches
- Bird Warnings
- A Rabbit's Fates
- Game-Birds and Motors
- Mysteries of the Nightjar
- The Razor-grinder
- A Ventriloquist
- The Cock and the Hen
- On Finding Feathers
- When the Dog's Asleep
- A Story of Rats
- Blood and Water
- The Untimely Opening
- 'Ware Wire
- Witless Pheasants
- Nature's Laws
- The Partridge June
- Favoured Pheasants
- A Covey of Ancients
- Keepers' Woe
- Red-Legs
- Water for Game-Birds
- Ideal Coverts
- The Thirst of Rabbits
- Puppies at Walk
- Schooling the Puppies
- Dogs' Noses
- The Thief of the World
- The Cubs' Playground
- A Fox's Feat
- Dog-Washing Days
- Shame-faced Cocks
- The Turtle-Dove's Summer
- The Lagging Landrail
- The Truce Ends
- The Thieving Jay
- The Oldest Writing
- Prospects
- Useful Work by Game-Birds
- Life of the Cornfield
- The Keeper's Hopes
- Finding the Fox
- Harvest Sport
- The Luck of the Game
- Rabbit-Catchers' Craft
- Among the Corn
- The Last to Leave
- In the Woods
- Weasel Families
- Mother Stoat
- Lurking-places
- Studies in Stoat Ways
- The First
- Early Birds
- Walking-up
- Thoughts on Cubbing
- Wines of the Country
- AUTUMN
- The Verdict of the Season
- Weather to pray for
- After the Opening
- An October Day
- Low Flight and High
- Wily Grouse Cocks
- Rewards for Cubs
- "Various"—the Landrail
- Sport amid the Shocks
- "Mark"
- The Keeper's Dogs
- Woodcock Owls
- Dogs that Despise Woodcock
- Pets of Pigs
- Some Deals in Dogs
- Marked Birds
- Colour-Changes in Feathers
- Nature's Healing
- A Little Story
- Accidents to Hares
- Hares no longer Speedy
- Starling Hosts
- Trials of a Copser
- Wild Birds in Cages
- Truffles
- Retriever's Usefulness
- Nuts and Mice
- The Hand of Time
- The Keeper grows Old
- Rabbit Ways in Autumn
- The Rabbits' House-cleaning
- The Guileless Countryman
- Sporting Policemen
- The Woodcraft of Gipsies
- Gipsy Lies
- Long-netters
- Training Rabbits
- Why Birds Flock
- The Companies of Rats
- The Fall
- Late and Early Autumns
- Hares in the Garden
- Food for Pheasants
- The Lingering Leaves
- Planning Big Shoots
- Plots and Counter-Plots
- Indian Summer
- Winter Sleep
- A Dish of Hedgehog
- WINTER
- Rustic Wit
- The Oak City
- Acorns
- Plump Rabbits
- The Stoat's Hunting
- Mysteries of Scent
- The Axe in the Coverts
- The Uses of Underwood
- The Tipping System
- Free Suppers for the Fox
- Clues to the Thief
- Muzzled by a Snare
- Cunning Rascals
- A Hunting Argument
- The Clever Terrier
- Born Retrieving
- Some Sporting Types
- Victims of Wire
- Stoat or Weasel?
- "The Horrid Badger"
- Chalk-Pit Haunts
- When the Fox sleeps
- When Ferret meets Fox
- February Rabbits
- The Moucher's Excuse
- When Hounds come
- When Hounds are gone
- Poachers' Weapons
- Moles' Skins for Furs
- Covert-shooting Problems
- "Cocks only"—to compromise
- What a Cat may kill
- A Cockney Story
- Hares in Small Holdings
- The Sins of the Father
- The Pheasants' Roosting-Trees
- The Fox in the Storm
- Foxes at Pheasant Shoots
- Pheasants that go to Ground
- Pheasants' Doomsday
- The Hungry Retriever
- The Old Wood
- Memories of Muzzle-loaders
- Relics of the Great Days
- Cleaning a Muzzle-loader
- The Knowing Beater
- Old Friends
- What Shepherds enjoy
- Lives of Labour
- In the Folds
- Shepherds' Care
- Winter Partridge-driving
- The Fear of Snow
- Hard-Weather Prophets
- Weather-wise Beasts and Birds
- Green Winters
- What Rainy Days bring
- Cubs at Christmas
- Work for Rainy Days
- The Old Lumber
- When Foxes mate
- A Keeper's Dreams
- A Death-bed Vision
- Christmas Sport
- Cunning Cock Pheasants
- A Dish of Greens
- Christmas Shoots
- Woodcock Talk
- Spare the Hens
- A Free-and-Easy
- A Keeper's Ghost-Story
- Old Friends in Velveteen
- The Converted Shepherd
- A Final Story
- Careful Wives
- "What Her was Like"
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