TO HIS EXCELLENCY, 

 HORATIO SEYMOUR. 



Before you became a leader of a great poliLical party, 

 or the chief magistrate of a great State, you loved the 

 woods, the lakes, the deep shadows of the forest and the 

 mountain streams — to throw the fly for the speckled trout 

 in river or brook, 



•' To follow the stag, o'er the slippery crag, 

 And to chase the hounding roe" 



Permit me, then, respectfully to dedicate to you, not as 

 the highest executive officer of the Empire State, hut as 

 a chivalrous and enthusiastic sportsman, the following 

 ■work. 



The Authoh. 



