STORRS L OLSON 



PREFACE, 



This little book is not intended as an ex- 

 haustive book of instruction either scientific 

 or sporting. It is merely a reprint, with 

 additions, of sundry papers jotted down in 

 the rare idle hours of a busy life. These 

 papers having, I am told, amused many in 

 the pages of ' Maga,' may perhaps amuse 

 more when collected in booklet form. If 

 they should do for the reader the kindness 

 which they performed for the writer — namely, 

 that of bringing a whiff from the snipe-haunted 

 marshes into the stuffy prison of everyday 

 life in parlour and street — '* Scolopax " will 

 feel that he has at any rate done some one 

 a good turn, and nobody any harm. 



