H.E. Bates Companion

A tribute to "the only survivor, now that the smuggler has gone, of the romantic thief, of the hunter who is himself hunted." Bates calls the excitement in breaking out of society's confines the true source of poaching; he also extols the the woods in September. In Jack O'London's Weekly (London, June 1936,v. 35 no. 908, p. 791).