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best liquor that can "be obtained ; then your mind, 

 filled with present complacency, must travel back 

 over these pages, and forgetting the faults and par- 

 doning the errors, acknowledge that if in them you 

 have not found an instructor, you have found a 

 brother sportsman ; and, for the sake of the bond 

 that binds all members of the gentle craft together, 

 if you cannot conscientiously praise the manner or 

 the matter of these pages, you w^ill utter no w^ord to 

 discourage an effort that, while pointing out and 

 dwelling upon the beauties of nature in our wonder- 

 ful country, and the pure attractions it offers to the 

 lovers of our art, has principally been to maintain 

 the healthy and ennobling nature of field-sports ; to 

 urge the protection, at proper seasons, of the game 

 that still lingers in our woods and waters ; and to 

 elevate to a proud standard of honorable, generous, 

 and merciful rivalry the sportsmanship of America. 



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