Game and game-birds -- Great Britain; Gamekeepers -- Great Britain; Natural history -- Great Britain
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
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