title: What's A Chap To Do?: Anguished Letters to the Shooting Gazette
author: Giles Catchpole
description: Giles Catchpole writes the Uncle Giles column in the Shooting Gazette and shoots regularly with friends. His previous titles include Birds, Boots &amp; Barrels (9781904057048) and Shooting Types: The Second Barrel (9781846891137).
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  # SAVING A ROPE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### HC BAILEY, 1948
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  This page formatted 2004 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  CHAPTER I. WINTER CLEANING
  
  
  CHAPTER II. MISSING
  
  
  CHAPTER III. VARIATIONS
  
  
  CHAPTER IV. HAPPY NEW YEAR
  
  
  CHAPTER V. NO CONCLUSION
  
  
  CHAPTER VI. BELOW THE TARN
  
  
  CHAPTER VII. SECOND CASUALTY
  
  
  CHAPTER VIII. BIRD'S NEST
  
  
  CHAPTER IX. SUSPICIONS
  
  
  CHAPTER X. RIBHAM VIEW
  
  
  CHAPTER XI. RIBLAND VIEW
  
  
  CHAPTER XII. VILLAGE VIEW
  
  
  CHAPTER XIII. REGGIE ALONE
  
  
  CHAPTER XIV. MARDALE AGAIN
  
  
  CHAPTER XV. IRVINE'S EMBARRASSMENT
  
  
  CHAPTER XVI. GILTHWAITE PARK
  
  
  CHAPTER XVII. IRVINE JOLLY
  
  
  CHAPTER XVIII. WHITFIELD'S THANKS
  
  
  CHAPTER XIX. ENQUIRIES REVERSED
  
  
  CHAPTER XX. DINNER AT UPGILL
  
  
  CHAPTER XXI. GILTHWAITE MORNING
  
  
  CHAPTER XXII. GILTHWAITE AFTERNOON
  
  
  CHAPTER XXIII. EXPLANATIONS
  
  
  CHAPTER XXIV. CONSULTATIONS
  
  
  CHAPTER XXV. IRVINE'S CAUTION
  
  
  CHAPTER XXVI. MARDALE'S OBSERVATIONS
  
  
  CHAPTER XXVII. ADVICE
  
  
  CHAPTER XXVIII. AFTERN