PREFACE. 



In presrnting the Amkuican rARTiuDGK and ruEASAXT Shootino, 1 

 have endeavored to lay before the puhlie, in as precise and brief a foriQ 

 lis i)0ssible, full and trustworthy explanations of the various practical 

 piethodj of hunting, and shooting, with dog and gun, the AmericaO 

 Partrirlgt^ and Pheasant, which twenty-five years of almost constant 

 pursuit in the American fields, and woodlands, in the Eastern por- 

 tion of our country, have enabled me to attain ; adding only the 

 assurance, that I have been prompted to this work, from a pure love 

 and fondness for tlie dog and gun, and those ennobling and manly 

 sports of which I have been for so many years an ardent follower. 

 And if these crude lines which I have penned prove of any service tc 

 my brotlier Sportsmen, my object will i e fully accomplished, and my 

 labor of love will not have been in vain. 



FRANK SCHLEY. 



FuiciJ!ci!icic City, Mu., 1877. , 



