NOTE.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. POACHERS AND POACHING. I.

CHAPTER II. POACHERS AND POACHING. II.

CHAPTER III. BADGERS AND OTTERS.

CHAPTER IV. COURIERS OF THE AIR.

CHAPTER V. THE SNOW-WALKERS.

CHAPTER VI. WHEN DARKNESS HAS FALLEN.

CHAPTER VII. BRITISH BIRDS, THEIR NESTS AND EGGS.

CHAPTER VIII. MINOR BRITISH GAME BIRDS.

CHAPTER IX. WATER POACHERS.

CHAPTER X. WILD DUCKS AND DUCK DECOYING.

CHAPTER XI. FIELD AND COVERT POACHERS.

CHAPTER XII. HOMELY TRAGEDY. I.

CHAPTER XIII. WORKERS IN WOODCRAFT. I.

CHAPTER XIV. SKETCHES FROM NATURE. I. NATURE'S WEATHER PROPHETS.

POACHERS AND POACHING

"Knowledge never learned in schools."

POACHERS AND POACHING

By

JOHN WATSON, F.L.S.

AUTHOR OF
"NATURE AND WOODCRAFT," "SYLVAN FOLK," "BRITISH SPORTING FISHES,"
EDITOR OF "THE CONFESSIONS OF A POACHER."

With a Frontispiece

LONDON: CHAPMAN AND HALL
LIMITED
1891

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