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“Foxology,” Dr. Lang’s, 135

“Game,” animals included as, 71

Gamekeepers: brutality of, 79, 86; Joseph Arch on, 75; Justice Vaughan Williams and, 76; increase of, 39; Mr. Lloyd George on, 39

Game Laws: facts about the, 69 et seq.; a legal anomaly, 70; raison d’être of, 71; popular dislike of, 72

Grand Duke’s exploit, 103

Gravid animals, hunting of, 158

Greenwood, George, M.P., on cruelty of sport, 1 et seq.

Grouse-moors and farmers, 38

Hare-hunting, 16; Sir Thomas More on, 16

Hedgehogs as “vermin,” 88

Heron, destruction of the, 41, 90

Home Office, the, and Game Laws, 74

Hudson, W. H., quoted, 87 et seq.

Hunt, Leigh, quoted, 133, 175

Hunter, the, as a “lover of animals,” 93

Hunting: expensiveness of, 62; a limited recreation, 66; a rich man’s sport, 62

Instincts, “God-planted,” 132

Japanese, prowess of the, 57

Johnston, Sir Harry: on big-game killing, 114; on gun-sportsmen, 93; on wild life, 85

Justice ignored in Game Law administration, 74

Justices of the Peace as game-preservers, 73

Kropotkin’s, Prince, estimate on produce of soil, 53

Land, effect of Game Laws on, 72

Legislation affected by hunting, 67

“Live bait,” cruelty of using, 108

Lloyd, E. B., on destruction of wild life, 85 et seq.

Londonderry’s, Lord, economic argument, 51

“Lost” animals, sufferings of, 110

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