PREFACE. 



IN presenting the AMERICAN PARTRIDGE AND PHEASANT SHOOTING, I 

 have endeavored to lay before the public, in as precise and brief a form 

 M possible, full and trustworthy explanations of the various practical 

 methods of hunting, and shooting, with dog and gun, the American 

 Partri<ltr and Pheasant, which twenty-five years of almost constant 

 pursuit in the American fields, and woodlands, in the Eastern por- 

 tion of our country, have enabled me to attain ; adding only the 

 assurance, that I have been prompted to this work, from a pure love 

 and fondness for the dog and gun, and those ennobling and manly 

 sports of which I have been for so many years an ardent follower. 

 And if these crude lines which I have penned prove of any service tc 

 my brother Sportsmen, my object will be fully accomplished, and my 

 labor of love will not have been in vain. 



FRANK SCHLEY. 



FREDEUICK CITY, MD., 1877. 



