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Richard Jefferies. The Gamekeeper at Home
The Gamekeeper at Home
Table of Contents
"Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life"
Preface
Chapter One
The Man Himself—His House, and Tools
Chapter Two
His Family and Caste
Chapter Three
In the Fields
Chapter Four
His Dominions:—the Woods—Meadows—and Water
Chapter Five
Some of his Subjects: Dogs, Rabbits, “Mice, and such Small Deer.”
Chapter Six
His Enemies—Birds and Beasts of Prey—Trespassers
Chapter Seven
Professional Poachers.—The Art of Wiring Game
Chapter Eight
The Field Detective—Fish-Poaching
Chapter Nine
Guerilla Warfare—Gun Accidents—Black Sheep
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Richard Jefferies
Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life
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She has her own receipts for preserving furs and feathers, and long practice has rendered her an adept. Here are squirrels’ skins also prepared; some with the bushy tail attached, and some without. They vary in size and the colour of the tail, which is often nearly white, in others more deeply tinged with red. The fur is used to line cloaks, and the tail is sometimes placed in ladies’ hats. Now and then she gets a badger-skin, which old country folk used to have made into waistcoats, said to form an efficacious protection for weak chests. She has made rugs of several sewn together, but not often.
In the store-room upstairs there are a few splendid fox-skins, some with the tails tipped with white, others tipped with black. These are used for ladies’ muffs, and look very handsome; the tail being occasionally curled round the muff. This sounds a delicate matter, and dangerously near the deadly sin of vulpecide. But it is not so. In these extensive woods, with their broad fringes of furze and heath, the foxes now and then become inconveniently numerous, and even cub-hunting will not kill them off sufficiently, especially if a great “head” of game is kept up, for it attracts every species of beast of prey.
