PREFACE 



r I ^0-DAY there is a large number of Englishmen with no particu- 

 lar occupation beyond ' killing time ', delightfully or dolor- 

 ously as may be, scattered along the seaside resorts of the southerly 

 coasts of both England and France ; some mere youths : other 

 men at middle life who find themselves, perhaps through no fault 

 of their own, without occupation and in possession of an income 

 insufficient to wholly gratify the tastes for out-door pursuits which 

 are usually bound up with the English temperament. Granted 

 the courage, and the passion to gratify the ordinary tastes of the 

 country gentleman for fishing, shooting and the rest, sufficient to 

 carry a man so far afield from his familiar walks of life, within the 

 limits of one short week it is possible to reach a land under the 

 British flag, with healthy bracing climate and sunny skies, where 

 exist glorious opportunities for enjoying to the full the pleasures 

 of open-air life, and where excellent sport with gun and rod is to 

 be had for a mere song. The working of a small stock farm, or 

 the cultivation of a few acres of apple orchard in the more fertile 

 portions of Nova Scotia is full of interest ; while the possibilities 

 for sport afforded by the countless picturesque streams and lakes 

 of that peninsular province of Canada, and by the ample tracts 

 of forest and wilderness which in Maritime Canada still exist in 

 a state of primeval wildness, are a most alluring feature to the 

 sportsman. Rural life in England offers many great attractions 

 to the man of large means, but the man of moderate means by 

 crossing the ocean undoubtedly gains many distinct advantages 



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