PREFACE. 



EXCEPTING the Northern tour, the following- 

 articles were contributed to an Edinburgh weekly 

 journal anxious to establish a sporting sheet. 

 The introduction will explain its object. The 

 whole comprises a few of the last experiences of 

 the Author's shooting and- fishing life. 



In these later days he has consequently had 

 the pleasure and comfort of always being accom- 

 panied by one or other, sometimes by both his two 

 elder sons, who, having beea thoroughly trained 

 by himself, never annoyed him by mistakes or 

 blunders, which so often ruffle the old hand when 



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