# The Gamekeeper at Home: Sketches of natural history and rural life (Illustrated)

Author: Jefferies, Richard, 1848-1887; Whymper, Charles, 1853-1941 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47450

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## Summary

The keeper’s cottage stands in a sheltered ‘coombe,’ or narrow hollow of the woodlands, overshadowed by a mighty Spanish chestnut, bare now of leaves, but in summer a noble tree. The ash wood covers the slope at the rear; on one side is a garden, and on the other a long strip of meadow with elms. In front, and somewhat lower, a streamlet winds, fringing the sward, and across it the fir plantations begin, their dark sombre foliage hanging over the water. A dead willow trunk thrown from bank to bank forms a rude bridge; the tree, not even squared, gives little surface for the foot, and in frosty weather a slip is easy. From this primitive contrivance a path, out of which others fork, leads...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gamekeeper-at-home-sketches-of-natural-history-and-rural-li-cf723b2b/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gamekeeper-at-home-sketches-of-natural-history-and-rural-li-cf723b2b/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gamekeeper-at-home-sketches-of-natural-history-and-rural-li-cf723b2b/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gamekeeper-at-home-sketches-of-natural-history-and-rural-li-cf723b2b/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gamekeeper-at-home-sketches-of-natural-history-and-rural-li-cf723b2b/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gamekeeper-at-home-sketches-of-natural-history-and-rural-li-cf723b2b/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gamekeeper-at-home-sketches-of-natural-history-and-rural-li-cf723b2b/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gamekeeper-at-home-sketches-of-natural-history-and-rural-li-cf723b2b/chapters/1/index.md)
- [did. Partridges may be found in the market on the morning of the](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gamekeeper-at-home-sketches-of-natural-history-and-rural-li-cf723b2b/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gamekeeper-at-home-sketches-of-natural-history-and-rural-li-cf723b2b/chapters/3/index.md)