Part 25

“Lust, the blood,” 113

Lyte, Sir H. Maxwell, on Eton barbarities, 117, 126

Martin, Howard, on benefits of sport, 49

Meredith, George, quoted, 94

Mice and cornfields, 40

Modern sport not heroic, 58

Monck, W. H. S., on economics of hunting, 60 et seq.

Moral defence of sport lacking, 7, 111

Natural versus unnatural history, 94

Nightingales, destruction of, 89

Nyasaland licences, 114

Otter hunt at Longtown, 30

Otter hunting, 18, 19, 160

Penal servitude for night poaching, 75

Penalties for trespass, 74

Pheasant shooting and vivisection, 1

Pheasants, artificially reared, 13, 36, 51, 94

Pigeon-shooting: not true sport, 21; Lord Randolph Churchill on, 166; prohibited at Hurlingham, 22, 167

Poacher: character of the, 80; the, as gamekeeper, 81; described, 81

Poachers, illegal sentences on, 74

Polo and hunting compared, 67

Preservation of game, 15

Professionalism spoiling sport, 59

Rabbit-coursing, 24

Rabbits, a nuisance to farmers, 39

Recreations: best available to largest numbers, 62; essentials of, 62-64

Remorse of the hunter, 106

Reserves for wild animals, 44