FIELD SPORTS 



UNITED STATES AND BRITISH PROVINCES. 



N the occasion of commencing, it 

 IS now several years ago, a series 

 \ of papers in a leading monthly 

 ■^ magazine, " On the Game of North 

 7 America, its nomenclature, habits, 

 haunts, and seasons ; with hints 

 ■<^''» on the science of woodcraft" — I 

 introduced the subject, by the fol- 

 lowing general remarks, and it ap- 

 pears to me that, inasmuch as they are not only still applicable, 

 but have in effect become more and more evidently true, owing 

 to the lapse of time since their publication, during which the 

 evils complained of have increased tenfold, I cannot do better 

 than repeat them, as entirely germane to the matter, and as 

 aptly introductory to that which is to follow. 



" There is, perhaps," I remarked, " no country in the world 

 which presents, to the sportsman, so long a catalogue of the 



