BY COVERT, FIELD AND MARSH

NOEL M. SEDGWICK
Editor of the “Shooting Times and British Sportsman’’

HERBERT JENKINS, LONDON

No date, circa 1946

First dition.

AUTHOR'S PREFACE. I would make it clear, however, that the entries cover several of the war years and not the single span of twelve months, and that I have made no attempt at "polished " writing.

As the Editor of a well-known shooting paper, it might possibly be thought that I should indulge less in describing small one-man, or two-man shooting days and rambles afield, confining myself rather to country-house shoots and " big" days on the moors, by the covert-side and so on. I probably could write such a book. But this present one is not concerned with " big " days. It is a perfectly simple series of cameos of "potterings" with dog and gun, which I hope, and believe, will appeal to the rough shooter, and perhaps prove instructive. If it does not make a similar appeal to the more conventional types of shooting man, then I am sorry ; but it should do so! Every sportsman should be a naturalist, if only an elementary one. He should learn to be observant; to appreciate his environments; to study methods of game preservation and how game is eventually " shown " to the guns. The ability of clever gun-performance can be a great asset in the shooting field, but I would rate it no higher than that. Without a fairly intimate knowledge and understanding of game and wild life, and all that this infers, the charm of shooting is reduced almost to a mechanical sport. And I, for one, am no mechanic!

CONTENTS
PREFACE
PHEASANTS IN WAR AND PEACE
REQUIEM
MORNING EXERCISE
TRAPPING SKILL
ONE-TIME HAUNT
INNS AND ROAD-HOUSES
SUMMER IDYL
CONVERSATION PIECE
TANNER A RABBIT !
LARDER REPLENISHED
COVERT SHOOT
DOWNLAND WHIRLWIND
PRE-WAR CAMEOS
KEEPER'S SABBATH
REARING FIELD EPISODES
WITH ROD AND LINE

21 x 14 cm. 167 pp + b/w photo plates.

Very good condition. Slight age toning to page edges, otherwise clean and tidy.