PREFACE. 



I WILL here repeat a conversation I had with an 

 employ*} of the Government ; from it the reader can 

 take his conclusions : 



" Sir, you dress field sports in Colonies in an 

 attractive garb." 



" Not more so than they deserve." 



" A man of your years should be ashamed of 

 himself! You will have all the youngsters going in 

 for rifles, horses, and dogs, when they should be 

 studying stock-raising, irrigation, sub-soiling, and 

 chemical manures." 



" Nothing of the kind. You have passed your 

 life in a Government office at home, and so know as 

 little of the outer and bigger world as the majority 

 of stay-at-home Englishmen do that is, about as 

 much as an Irish pig does of social etiquette. Listen, 

 and I will give you my reasons for encouraging a 

 love of field sports in those youths that emigrate. 



