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    Minor Field Sports - Including Hunting, Dogs, Ferreting, Hawking, Trapping, Shooting, Fishing and Other Miscellaneous Activities
    Minor Field Sports - Including Hunting, Dogs, Ferreting, Hawking, Trapping, Shooting, Fishing and Other Miscellaneous Activities
    Minor Field Sports - Including Hunting, Dogs, Ferreting, Hawking, Trapping, Shooting, Fishing and Other Miscellaneous Activities
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    Minor Field Sports - Including Hunting, Dogs, Ferreting, Hawking, Trapping, Shooting, Fishing and Other Miscellaneous Activities

    By L. C. R. Cameron

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    A book for the true countryman of all ages. First published in the early 1900s, now reprinted in a fine-quality paperback edition for a new generation. It will stir many nostalgic memories for older readers and teach younger ones some new and unusual methods of taking various kinds of quarry. Its seven illustrated chapters cover 166 pages and include details and instructions on a fascinating variety of subjects, many of them now long vanished. It's a truly readable book from a more innocent age when the country was a freer place. We've reprinted this with genuine pleasure. It describes the sporting activities of a generation only just removed from ours but now separated forever by new legislation and a change in attitudes amongst out-of-touch urbanites. My father described it as 'almost a diary of my country childhood'. It is without doubt the most interesting book we've ever sold and I defy anyone with even a passing interest in the countryside or field sports to be able to flick through it without becoming absorbed. I : SPORTS DEPENDING ON DOGS: Badger-hunting; Stoat-hunting; Rat-hunting; Squirrel-hunting; Water-vole and Moorhen hunting; Wild-rabbit coursing; Hedgehog finding; Dog-racing; "Hunting the clean boot" II: SPORTS DEPENDING ON FERRETS: Ratting; Rabbiting III: SPORTS DEPENDENT ON BIRDS: Hawking small birds; Trapping and netting sparrows; Pigeon-racing; Tippler-flying; Hawking insects with jackdaws IV: SPORTS REQUIRING A GUN OR RIFLE: Rook and rabbit shooting; Sparrow and starling shooting; Wood-pigeon shooting; Shooting game with a bow and arrows V: SPORT WITH FISHES: Wiring jack and pike; Sniggling and spearing eels; Minnow and gudgeon fishing; Crayfish catching VI: MISCELLANEOUS SPORTS: Finding the eggs of certain birds; Viper-killing; Millipede-racing; Beetle-fighting VII: SOME MAJOR FIELD SPORTS: In the hunting field; Fox-hunting
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateSep 6, 2016
    ISBN9781473359949
    Minor Field Sports - Including Hunting, Dogs, Ferreting, Hawking, Trapping, Shooting, Fishing and Other Miscellaneous Activities

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      Minor Field Sports - Including Hunting, Dogs, Ferreting, Hawking, Trapping, Shooting, Fishing and Other Miscellaneous Activities - L. C. R. Cameron

      I: SPORTS DEPENDING CHIEFLY ON DOGS

      PRELIMINARY NOTES

      THE most important question for the boy who intends going in for one of the minor sports enlisted under this heading is: What sort of dog shall I own? especially if he can afford to keep but one. The list of suitable dogs is not a long one. It comprises terriers of various sorts, beagles, spaniels, whippets, and cross-bred dogs between any two of these breeds. The cross-bred dog is not a mongrel: it is only when one cross-bred dog interbreeds with another that the mongrel appears, if the two parents represent three or four breeds between them. The breeding of mongrels should not be permitted; but a cross-bred dog is often a very clever, intelligent animal, and one that will prove a most serviceable companion for the one-dog minor sportsman.

      Such dogs are often to be purchased as puppies for a few shillings, even to-day; and no one can hope to get the best out of a dog unless he acquires him when a puppy. Like women, dogs are very faithful to their first loves, and their first master’s whistle will usually recall them even after many years. Like women, too, it is often only after they have changed hands several times that they settle down to the real lasting affection of their lives and discover who their true masters are, those whom they can absolutely trust and in whose companionship they can be really happy. So that a dog should be caught young, or else bought after it has passed through several changes of ownership. In either case they should not prove very expensive to buy or to keep.

      According to the sport for which it is required, so must the dog be selected. If badger-hunting be the sport, a bull-terrier, or a cross-bred dog having bull-terrier blood on one side, should be chosen. Such a dog is, however, of very little use for other sports, while most dogs will hunt a badger; and in any case this is not a very important minor sport, as it is not everywhere that badgers are found, nor are all boys allowed out at night to hunt them. If intended to hunt the stoat, beagles will be necessary or a beagle-terrier cross-bred. Highland terriers (now called Cairn terriers and rapidly losing their sporting character under the deteriorating influence of the show-bench) are also good at stoat-hunting, and excellent for catching water-voles and moor-hens. A fox-terrier-spaniel cross-bred is also good for the latter bird, as for rabbiting and finding hedgehogs, and the spaniel, of course, is good for all shooting purposes. For wild rabbit-coursing and dog-racing the whippet and terrier-and-whippet cross-bred are indicated. Fox-terriers—the doubtful sort—are good for hunting most things, and share with the Highland terrier a fondness for killing rats that is ineradicable.

      WHITE WEST HIGHLAND TERRIER.

      COCKER SPANIEL.

      [Face p. 12.

      FOX TERRIER.

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