. Ten years of game-keeping . A PHEASANT USURPS A THRUSH S NEST BUILT ON THE GROUN TllE RKARING-riELD. PHEASANTS: IN PEACE 115 selves and their belongings. The longer yourstock has been wild-bred, the more satisfactorythe results. The hand-rearing of pheasants is a specialdepartment of a keepers duties, but it by nomeans follows that a successful rearer is a success-ful all-round keeper. A man may be a fine loaderof cartridges, yet may be unable to hit a rearing of pheasants has its charms and itsworries, of great interest to the keeper, but notto other people—even to the emp
. Ten years of game-keeping . A PHEASANT USURPS A THRUSH S NEST BUILT ON THE GROUN TllE RKARING-riELD. PHEASANTS: IN PEACE 115 selves and their belongings. The longer yourstock has been wild-bred, the more satisfactorythe results. The hand-rearing of pheasants is a specialdepartment of a keepers duties, but it by nomeans follows that a successful rearer is a success-ful all-round keeper. A man may be a fine loaderof cartridges, yet may be unable to hit a rearing of pheasants has its charms and itsworries, of great interest to the keeper, but notto other people—even to the employer, who is aptto confine his practical interest to the cost. Hand-rearing is so tainted and controlled by money thatthere is not much room left now for woodcraft, theessence of a gamekeepers life. Hand-rearedpheasants are quoted at so much a head, or ahundred, or a thousand, the price being a littlehigher or a little lower in a bad or a good reminds one of the sale of music at so mucha perforated roll. The rearing of pheasants is the drudgery of akeepers work. From
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