PREFACE. 



UNTING-STORIES without exciting ad- 

 ventures and hairbreadth escapes find 

 little favour with the general public, but 

 those who have spent pleasant hours in 

 the woods know that such adventures are of rare 

 occurrence. 



This book deals solely with facts. The adventures 

 of Professor Dyche while collecting specimens of the 

 larger mammals of North America are not of a thrill- 

 ing kind, but they give the life in the woods as it 

 really is. My story is taken from the note-books and 

 diaries of the professor, and not one word has been 

 added to the facts which he has noted, to make the 

 book more interesting or exciting. 



I offer simply a description of the life of a natu- 

 ralist-hunter and of the pleasures of camp life, with 

 a naturalist's explanations of the habits of animals. 



CLARENCE E. EDWORDS. 



