INTRODUCTION XI 



There is daily something to learn, if not to unlearn ; 

 but I can at least claim to have made an honest 

 attempt to put down the results of my own, somewhat 

 dearly bought, experience, in the hope of assisting 

 some of the younger generation of hunting-men to 

 negotiate fences over which I had, in my young 

 days, to scramble as best I could. If I realise this 

 hope, in even a few instances, I shall not have 

 written entirely in vain. 



