PREFACE. VII 



of the proudest satisfaction. Below them it is more 

 a question of the sportsman's fancy or prejudices. 

 Remember, however, that in all manner of sport 

 there is something higher than the mere capture of 

 the finny prey, the communion with nature, the 

 presence of the waving trees, and the babbling 

 brook, of the thundering waterfall, the clouds and 

 the winds and the waters, which bring the human 

 soul nearer to the skies from which it came, and to 

 which it must in the end return. See to it then that 

 the days and nights in the woods, are days and nights 

 of improvement as well as of pleasure, that the sports- 

 man learns as well as lives, and comes out more of 

 a man for every hour spent in them. If tired, and 

 over-worked, and city-bred, remember too, that the 

 game of a country is the best medicine, and that no 

 cure equals the sporting cure. 



THE AUTHOR. 



