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I was bred on the outskirts of a sleepy town in a good game country, and my depredations were mostly when the Game Laws were less rigorously enforced than now. Our home was roughly adorned in fur and feather, and a number of gaunt lurchers always constituted part of the family...
When I had finished the last chapter I thought I had completed my work, but the gentleman who is to edit these "Confessions" now tells me that I am to confess more. He reminds m...
5. Chapter 5.Our hare season generally began with partridge poaching, so that the coming of the hunter's moon was always an interesting autumnal event. By its aid the first big bag of the se...
7. Chapter 7.Flashes the blood-red gleam Over the midnight slaughter; Wild shadows haunt the stream; Dark forms glance o'er the water. It is the leisterers' cry! A salmon, ho! oho! In scales...
3. Chapter 3.Just as the sportsman loves "rough shooting," so the poacher invariably chooses wild ground for his depredations. There is hardly a sea-parish in the country which has not its s...
6. Chapter 6.Through late summer and autumn the poacher's thoughts go out to the early weeks of October. Neither the last load of ruddy corn, nor the actual netting of the partridge gladden...
10. Chapter 10.When it is known that a man's life is one long protest against the Game Laws he has to be exceedingly careful of his comings and goings. Every constable, every gamekeeper, and m...
9. Chapter 9.If well trained lurchers are absolutely necessary to hare poaching, ferrets are just as important to successful rabbit poaching. Nearly nothing in fur can be done without them....
2. Chapter 2.When the embryo poacher has once tasted the forbidden fruits of the land--and it matters not if his game be but field-mice and squirrels--there is only one thing wanting to win...
8. Chapter 8.For pleasurable excitement, to say nothing of profit, the pick of all poaching is for grouse. However fascinating partridge poaching may be; however pleasurable picking off phea...
4. Chapter 4.The bloom on the brambles; the ripening of the nuts; and the ruddiness of the corn all acted as reminders that the "fence" time was rapidly drawing to a close. So much did the f...
1. Chapter 1.I was bred on the outskirts of a sleepy town in a good game country, and my depredations were mostly when the Game Laws were less rigorously enforced than now. Our home was roug...