Part 22

Badgers as “vermin,” 88

“Bag,” a six weeks’, 104

Balance of Nature upset, 40

“Battue,” horrors of the, 83

“Battue-shooting,” 13

Beagles: Eton, 18; Tom Brown on Rugby, 125; forbidden by original statutes, 117; not legalised until 1871, 117; Dr. Warre’s attitude re, 116; strength of the opposition to, 124

Big-game hunting: Mr. Ernest Bell on, 101; monotony of, 101, 102

“Blooding,” 155

Blood-sports: not manly, 56, 112, 136; at schools, 116

Buchanan, Robert, quoted, 69, 150

Buckhounds, abolition of Royal, 100, 130

Buddha, humane teachings of, 29

Burmese, the, and compassion, 29

Burns, Robert, on shooting, 93

Byron, Lord, on angling, 178

Callousness of fox-hunting, the, 95

Carlisle otter hounds, 30

Carpenter, Edward, on sport and agriculture, 34 et seq.

Carted deer, 22

Civilised versus savage life, 132

Clay-pigeons and live pigeons, 166

Colquhoun, John, on the poacher, 81

Compassion taught by Buddha, 29

Compensation, farmers and, 37

Cornfields damaged by mice and sparrows, 40

Coursing, 170

Cricket compared with hunting, 67

Cruel sports not public benefits, 60