The Gamekeeper at Home: Sketches of natural history and rural life (Illustrated)

CHAPTER I.

The Man himself--his house, and Tools.

The keeper’s cottage stands in a sheltered ‘coombe,’ or narrow hollow of the woodlands, overshadowed by a mighty Spanish chestnut, bare now of leaves, but in summer a noble tree. The ash wood covers the slope at the rear; on one side is a garden, and on the other a long strip of meadow with elms. In front, and somewhat lower, a...