20 Photography for the Sportsman Naturalist 



undeserving of the name ; and they could find 

 but little to interest them in work with a camera 

 unless they could find it useful in helping them 

 to prove how many ducks or grouse they had 

 killed in a day, or how many trout they had taken 

 from a single brook. 



But I am writing to those true sportsmen who 

 go to the wilds for the love of it and of the free, 

 untrammelled life they can lead there ; who know 

 their wild brethren and appreciate their right to 

 live sufficiently to give them, at least, a fighting 

 chance ; who carry their gun or rod, and use it 

 for the pleasure it affords them to pit their 

 strength, endurance, and ingenuity against the 

 cunning and ofttimes greater strength of their 

 quarry ; and who, when they have won, and the 

 beast, bird, or fish, as the c^se may be, falls to 

 their prowess, feel elated, not at the fact that they 

 have taken a life, but that, by their perseverance 

 and superior skill, they have been able to gain 

 the victory over their opponent. 



For these men, I say, I am in particular pre- 

 paring this book, for they are the men who find 

 a greater pleasure in winning a three or four 

 hours' hard-fought battle with a tarpon than if 

 the same fight had been won with greater ease 

 in less time, and who think a week or two not 

 wasted if it only brings to them one splendid pair 

 of moose antlers. I think that these same men 



