Download or read book The Gamekeeper S Son written by Ron Stewart and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been brought to my attention that not everyone knows what a gamekeeper really is, in fact, while going over some thoughts on the subject before I started writing, I now realize how complex and difficult this task is going to be. He is hired by the Laird, the owner of an estate, to protect all the game from predators and poachers (people who take game illegally). An estate may consist of hundreds of square miles and a few dozen farms also owned by the laird and leased to individual farmers. In the case of very large estates such as this, it would be necessary for him to hire as many as six gamekeepers each with his own section, or beat, to look after. In addition to a small wage, he would also have the use of a house owned by the estate with firewood, coal, milk, and oatmeal included, for as long as he remained in the employment of the laird. A gamekeepers day would start at daybreak and end at dusk seven days a week, but he did have some time to himself during the day when all his work was taken care of. When he was not out setting or checking his traps or snares for rabbits, he would be in his workshop repairing them. He had to maintain about forty traps and twice as many snares. He made all the snares from scratch, including the wooden pegs. He made all his bolt nets too. These were about three feet square with a drawstring woven in and out round the perimeter to which was attached a peg. He usually made them in the long winter evenings, sitting by the fire and listening to the radio. He was also required to protect the nests of game birds, such as partridge, pheasant, and grouse from predators, the worst offender being the hooded crow, a very wily bird that would nest in the tall pine trees. The gamekeeper would build a hide close to the nest and sit and wait sometimes for hours until the crow returned and he could shoot it. Weasels and badgers also created havoc on the birds nests and had to be controlled too. Poachers were always a problem. When he would find some strange traps or snares on his rounds, he would leave them intact and find a secluded spot nearby and wait until the poacher returned and apprehend him. His traps would be confiscated and sent on his way with a swift kick on the posterior and the threat of death should he ever be caught there again. The police were seldom involved. The gamekeeper was well respected in the community and was classed with the doctor, minister, schoolteacher, and policeman and was regarded as one of the main sources of information in rural areas since there were no telephones and few folks had radio. We had a radio (a Christmas gift from the laird), so he was much sought after for information regarding the progress of the war with the Germans. Anyone could depend on him for comfort or advice in any situation, and he was always a willing giver.
Download or read book The Gamekeeper s Little Son and Other Stories for Children written by Frances Isabelle M. Kershaw and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gamekeeper s Wife written by Clare Flynn and published by Cranbrook Press. This book was released on with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping tale of love, sacrifice and determination in the aftermath of the First World War. He was broken in the trenches... She was broken by her husband... He is trapped by his inheritance... She is trapped by her past Martha Walters is the impoverished widow of an abusive man. Christopher (Kit) Shipley is the reluctant heir to a substantial family fortune. They never intended to fall in love, but sometimes the wrong person turns out to be the right one – until a terrible secret threatens to tear Martha and Kit apart forever. From an English country house to the jungles of Borneo, The Gamekeeper’s Wife, is sure to keep you up reading all night.
Download or read book The Gamekeeper s Little Son written by Frances I Kershaw and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-09 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gamekeeper's little son - and other stories for children is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1883. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres.As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature.Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Download or read book The Gamekeeper s Boy written by and published by Larks Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gamekeeper s Daughter written by Eva Gordon and published by Eva Gordon. This book was released on 2021-04-09 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queen Victoria's top assassin, Lord Alexander Stokes harbors his fair share of dark secrets. Chief among them his membership in an elite brothel. When a damsel-in-distress appeals for his help, he ponders the consequences, yet her similarity to his first love intrigues him. He offers to help her with a single condition: that the beauty consents to be his chattel for an entire year. Given no choice, Julia agrees to his terms. Anything is better than going to the gallows for a murder she did not commit, especially when the real killer is stalking her. Despite her misgivings about being the masked man’s chattel, his raw masculine power lures her in like a hawk to her falconer. Can they learn to trust one another and live long enough to know true love?
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Download or read book Sons and Lovers The Biography of a Novel written by Neil Roberts and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-11 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book recounts the story of how Sons and Lovers was written, how Lawrence’s life was transformed during the writing, and the contributions of the women in his life to his work.
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Download or read book A Treatise on the Law of Obligations Or Contracts written by Robert Joseph Pothier and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Ladies Repository written by and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of this women's magazine originated with Samuel Williams, a Cincinnati Methodist, who thought that Christian women needed a magazine less worldly than Godey's Lady's Book and Snowden's Lady's Companion. Written largely by ministers, this exceptionally well-printed little magazine contained well-written essays of a moral character, plenty of poetry, articles on historical and scientific matters, and book reviews. Among western writers were Alice Cary, who contributed over a hundred sketches and poems, her sister Phoebe Cary, Otway Curry, Moncure D. Conway, and Joshua R. Giddings; and New England contributors included Mrs. Lydia Sigourney, Hannah F. Gould, and Julia C.R Dorr. By 1851, each issue published a peice of music and two steel plates, usually landscapes or portraits. When Davis E. Clark took over the editorship in 1853, the magazine became brighter and attained a circulation of 40,000. Unlike his predecessors, Clark included fictional pieces and made the Repository a magazine for the whole family. After the war it began to decline and in 1876 was replaced by the National Repository. The Ladies' Repository was an excellent representative of the Methodist mind and heart. Its essays, sketches, and poems, its good steel engravings, and its moral tone gave it a charm all its own. -- Cf. American periodicals, 1741-1900.
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Download or read book A Memoir of C M Young With Extracts from His Son s Journal With Portraits and Sketches written by Julian Charles YOUNG and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Remarks on the injuriousness of the consolidation of Small Farms and the benefit of small occupations and allotments With observations on the past and present state of the Agricultural Labourers In two letters to His Grace the Duke of Grafton written by James Henry KENT and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Big Louie and Me written by George Locke and published by Univ of Hertfordshire Press. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the author s great-grandmother s affair with a Gypsy boy in 1869, this warmhearted memoir chronicles the Gypsy life in a very close-knit community in the UK's Black Country. From a lifetime teeming with incident, George Locke shares the best stories from the old days, including run-ins with the police, gamekeepers, and Gypsy-haters, as well as his fond memories of his grandmother, Big Louie, who smoked a pipe from the age of three and had ancient knowledge of healing plants. A nostalgic and wry account of a way of life no longer to be found in rural England, this book is full of lore, quick wit, and, above all, a solid belief in family."
