• Accidents involved by hunting, 66
• Adams, Maurice, on cost of sport, 45 et seq.
• Afforestation conflicts with game preservation, 53
• Agriculture ruined by sport, 38
• Athletic exercises compared with blood-sports, 129
• Badgers as “vermin,” 88
• “Bag,” a six weeks’, 104
• Balance of Nature upset, 40
• “Battue,” horrors of the, 83
• “Battue-shooting,” 13
• Beagles:
• Eton, 18;
• Tom Brown on Rugby, 125;
• forbidden by original statutes, 117;
• not legalised until 1871, 117;
• Dr. Warre’s attitude re, 116;
• strength of the opposition to, 124
• Big-game hunting:
• Mr. Ernest Bell on, 101;
• monotony of, 101, 102
• “Blooding,” 155
• Blood-sports:
• not manly, 56, 112, 136;
• at schools, 116
• Buchanan, Robert, quoted, 69, 150
• Buckhounds, abolition of Royal, 100, 130
• Buddha, humane teachings of, 29
• Burmese, the, and compassion, 29
• Burns, Robert, on shooting, 93
• Byron, Lord, on angling, 178
• Callousness of fox-hunting, the, 95
• Carlisle otter hounds, 30
• Carpenter, Edward, on sport and agriculture, 34 et seq.
• Carted deer, 22
• Civilised versus savage life, 132
• Clay-pigeons and live pigeons, 166
• Colquhoun, John, on the poacher, 81
• Compassion taught by Buddha, 29
• Compensation, farmers and, 37
• Cornfields damaged by mice and sparrows, 40
• Coursing, 170
• Cricket compared with hunting, 67
• Cruel sports not public benefits, 60
• Cruelties of stag-hunting, 10
• Cruelty, definition of, 2
• “Cub-hunting,” barbarities of, 9
• Cultivated area of Great Britain, 53
• Deer, carted, “accidents” to, 22
• Deer-forests:
• acreage of, 84;
• effects of, 84
• De Quincey’s satire, 142
• Dixie, Lady Florence, quoted, 163
• Dogs, gamekeepers’, Unmanliness of pheasant-shooting, 57
• Unregistered gamekeepers, 80
• Unsportsmanlike devices, 104
• “Vermin” exterminated by game-preservers, 88
• Vivisection and field sports compared, 1
• Wallace, A. R., on gamekeepers, 76
• War, sport as training for, 149
• Warre, Dr., his defence of the Eton hare-hunt, 116, 123
• Watson, H. B. Marriott, on fox-hunting, 95 et seq.
• Weasels as “vermin,” 88
• Wild life, destruction of, 85 et seq.
• Women and hunting, 11, 19
• Woodpecker destroyed by gamekeeper, 89
• Wounded victims of sport, 14
• Young, need of humane teaching for the, 18

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