"The Amateur Poacher" by Richard Jefferies
Cambridge Library Collection - History. Reprint edition first published 1879
Cambridge University Press | 2009 | ISBN: 1108004091 9781108004091 | 256 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Cambridge Library Collection - History. Reprint edition first published 1879
Cambridge University Press | 2009 | ISBN: 1108004091 9781108004091 | 256 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This issue is a collections of essays in the style of reminiscences of a rural way of life which, though never idyllic, was by the 1870s beginning to undergo a period of rapid change, through both the onset of mechanisation and agricultural depression.
See also: The Gamekeeper at Home
CONTENTS
PREFACE
I. THE FIRST GUN
II. THE OLD PUNT: A CURIOUS 'TURNPIKE'
III. TREE-SHOOTING : A FISHING EXPEDITION
IV. EGG-TIME : A 'GIP'- TRAP
V. WOODLAND TWILIGHT : TRAITORS ON THE GIBBET
VI. LURCHER-LAND: 'THE PARK'
VII. OBY, AND HIS SYSTEM : THE MOUCHER'S CALENDAR
VIII. CHURCHYARD PHEASANTS : BEFORE THE BENCH
IX. LUKE, THE RABBIT-CONTRACTOR : THE BROOK PATH
X. FARMER WILLUM'S PLACE : SNIPE-SHOOTING
XI. FERRETING : ARABBIT - HUNTER
XII. A WINTER NIGHT : OLD TRICKS : PHEASANTSTALKING : MATCHLOCK VERSUS BREECHLOADER: CONCLUSION
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Richard Jefferies (1848-87) remains one of the most thoughtful and most lyrical writers on the English countryside.