X PREFACE. 



must candidly be confessed, that the writer 

 could not divest himself of feeling rather as 

 one conversing, without reserve, among his 

 brother sportsmen, than as an author, whose 

 work was going before a public tribunal. 



The summit of his ambition, therefore, will 

 be, to give some little additional knowledge 

 to those for whom the work is intended ; and 

 his earnest hopes are, that these his further, 

 and most probably his last, efforts on the 

 subject, will meet with that indulgence, which 

 he has experienced on all former occasions. 



