A GAMEKEEPER'S NOTE-BOOK. By Owen Jones and Marcus Woodward.

(1910) 2002 new edition. 8vo. Ppxvi,307. B/w photograph frontispiece, new introduction by John Humphreys. Dust-wrapper painting by Rodger McPhail.

An absorbing account of the keeper's daily life and work, month by month, through the seasons. It reveals the secrets of the trade, the ways of the pheasant and the stoat, the hare and the magpie, the partridge and the fox, as well as the methods of the poacher, with long-net and snare. In this book "the notes set out are culled chiefly from a series of genuine note-books, covering a certain keeper's ten-years' experience of game-keeping and life-long experience in woodcraft. We have taken the rough jottings of his pocket-books, and have done our best with thoughts and memories to sketch in the foreground and background of his facts."