POACHERS AND POACHING

"Knowledge never learned in schools."

LURCHERS.

POACHERS AND POACHING

By

JOHN WATSON, F.L.S.

AUTHOR OF
"NATURE AND WOODCRAFT," "SYLVAN FOLK," "BRITISH SPORTING FISHES,"
EDITOR OF "THE CONFESSIONS OF A POACHER."

With a Frontispiece

LONDON: CHAPMAN AND HALL
LIMITED
1891

[All Rights reserved]

WESTMINSTER:
PRINTED BY NICHOLS AND SONS,
25, PARLIAMENT STREET.

NOTE.

These chapters originally appeared as articles in Macmillan'sMagazine, the Cornhill Magazine, the NationalReview, the Gentleman's Magazine, the St.James's Gazette and the Pall Mall Gazette; and Ihave to thank the Editors and Proprietors of these periodicals forpermission to reprint them. The chapter entitled "Water Poachers" isreprinted by permission from the Nineteenth Century.

As to the facts in the volume, they are mainly taken at first hand fromnature.

J. W.

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