PREFACE. 



HAVE had the desire to publish an illustrated work 

 of this sort for a good many years; hut the difficulty 

 always has been to meet with an artist equal to the 

 task. Many a Shooting and Eishing Picture have I 

 seen published, in which the artist had not the slightest 

 acquaintance with the subject he had imdertaken, and 

 wherein the details had been furnished entirely by his 

 imagination. There can be no need for me to say that 

 my friend Mr. Alfred Cooper has a thorough know- 

 of Sport in all its branches, and of the implements and require- 

 ments needed for its prosecution. His drawings are most of them 

 Sketches from Nature, and many of the figures are Portraits of well- 

 known persons. 



FRANCIS ERANCIS. 



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