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Nature, Gardens & Animals
The Amateur Poacher
Richard Jefferies
198 pages~3 hr 57 min read16 chapters$4.99
It begins with a boy's first gun and an old punt, then moves through tree-shooting, egg-time, and woodland twilight with traitors on the gibbet. Richard Jefferies remembers the poaching adventures of a country boyhood in prose that made him famous. Vivid, wild, and deeply English. A classic of the fields for anyone who loves the outdoors.
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Inside this book
16 chapters
- 1The Amateur Poacher
- 2Contents
- 3PREFACE
- 4THE AMATEUR POACHER
- 5CHAPTER I THE FIRST GUN
- 6CHAPTER II THE OLD PUNT: A CURIOUS “TURNPIKE”
- 7CHAPTER III TREE-SHOOTING: A FISHING EXPEDITION
- 8CHAPTER IV EGG-TIME. A “GIP”-TRAP
- 9CHAPTER V WOODLAND TWILIGHT: TRAITORS ON THE GIBBET
- 10CHAPTER VI LURCHER-LAND: “THE PARK”
- 11CHAPTER VII OBY AND HIS SYSTEM: THE MOUCHER’S CALENDAR
- 12CHAPTER VIII CHURCHYARD PHEASANTS: BEFORE THE BENCH
- 13CHAPTER IX LUKE, THE RABBIT CONTRACTOR: THE BROOK-PATH
- 14CHAPTER X FARMER WILLUM’S PLACE: SNIPE SHOOTING
- 15CHAPTER XI FERRETING: A RABBIT-HUNTER
- 16CHAPTER XII. A WINTER NIGHT: OLD TRICKS: PHEASANT-STALKING: MATCHLOCK versus BREECH-LOADER: CONCLUSION
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