(1920) ND [c2004] reprint. [Read Country Books, Alcester, Warwickshire]. Ppviii,166. 4 plates, text illustrations. This is a modern facsimile hardbound reprint without a dust-wrapper. Fine.
Notes: A great look at what the country boy could get up to in the early 20th century. Hunting badgers, stoats, squirrels, water-voles & moorhens, rabbits, rats & hedgehogs; ferreting rabbits & rats; hawking small birds, sparrow trapping, pigeon flying & racing; rook & rabbit shooting; sparrow, starling & wood-pigeon shooting, bow-hunting small game; snaring pike, sniggling eels; catching minnows & crayfish, finding bird's eggs & adders, millipede racing & beetle fighting; hunting, shooting, coursing & angling. L.C.R. Cameron started life as Louis Charles Richard Jewell, later becoming Ludovick Charles Richard Duncombe-Jewell, & converting also from the Plymouth Brethren to Catholicism. Born in Liskeard, Duncombe-Jewell enjoyed a varied career as soldier, journalist, author & fringe eccentric. He was a founding member of the Cornish Gorsedd, member of the Welsh Gorsedd under the name Bardd Glas, wrote the first known sonnet in Cornish and was secretary of the Celtic Cornish Association besides being an expert on Cornish traditional dress - which he himself had invented. His journalism was respectable & prolific, working for The Times and covering the Boer War for the Morning Post with Winston Churchill. His books include Otters and Otter Hunting; The Handbook to British Military Stations Abroad; Rod, Pole & Perch: Fishing & Otter Hunting; Love Lies Bleeding: Rhymes of Sport in Old French Verse-Forms; Wild Foods of Great Britain: Where to Find and How to Cook Them; The Hunting Horn: What To Blow And How To Blow It.
