Part 23

Cruelties of stag-hunting, 10

Cruelty, definition of, 2

“Cub-hunting,” barbarities of, 9

Cultivated area of Great Britain, 53

Deer, carted, “accidents” to, 22

Deer-forests: acreage of, 84; effects of, 84

De Quincey’s satire, 142

Dixie, Lady Florence, quoted, 163

Dogs, gamekeepers’, 76

Drag-hunt versus stag-hunt, 162

Drag-hunting a pleasurable sport, 99, 163

Durham, Lord, defends rabbit-coursing, 27

Economics of hunting, 60 et seq.

Elephants, extermination of, 105

“Enclosure Act,” 71

Eton Beagles, 18; eminent opponents of, 124; hare-hunt, the, 116; sports, brutality of, 117 et seq.

Evolution and animal kinship, 33

Expenditure on hunting, 65

Explosive bullets, 113

Farmers and compensation, 37

Farmers injured by hunting, 64

Field, The, on tame-deer hunting, 24

Fishing, 174

“Food-supply” fallacy, the, 83

Fortescue, Hon. J., quoted, 109

Fox, the hunted, 6, 98

Foxes “made in Germany,” 35

Fox-hunting, 5 et seq.; excuses for, 8; H. B. M. Watson on, 95; illogical, 97, 98