A FUNNY OLD QUIST: Recorded March 27th to April 6th and May 27th to May 29th, 1978. By Evan Rogers. Ordinary Lives series No. 8. Edited by Clive Murphy.

1981 1st edition. 8vo (140 x 222mm). Pp216. Not illustrated. Black / brown boards, spine titled in gilt.

Sixty-eight years keepering at Brinsop Court, Herefordshire. "An octogenarian gamekeeper - 68 years on one Herefordshire estate - paints a vivid picture of his childhood, his experience of the Great War and his varied duties in the service of several masters. While explaining the necessity of his calling and describing its rigours and many personal dramas, he warns of rural life and of the hazards that accompany mechanisation. A Conservative through and through, he tells us why, in language both forthright and robust."