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A Gamekeeper's Note-book

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About This Book

The authors assemble short, observational entries drawn from keepers' pocket notebooks and long experience to present a practical, episodic portrait of rural gamekeeping through the seasons. Entries detail daily routines, estate perquisites, cottage life, trapping and vermin control, encounters with poachers and sporting parties, and close natural-history observations of birds, mammals, nests and breeding. Practical instruction on management, traps and dog work sits beside quiet character sketches of keepers and their families, while episodic incidents and reflective notes convey woodcraft, animal behaviour, and the everyday challenges of preserving and rearing game.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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A Pipe of Peace Frontispiece
Spring's Looking-glass 40
Hampshire Hurdles 78
The Long Day Closes 134
Starlings Roosting on Reeds
From a Drawing by Frank Southgate, R.B.A.
204
Peewits in Winter
From a Drawing by Frank Southgate, R.B.A.
280