Animal welfare; Hunting -- Moral and ethical aspects; Hunting -- Religious aspects
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_ _un_natural 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
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