ADVEETISEMENT 



When Nimrod's "Letters on -Hunting" first appeared in the 

 pages of the Sporting Marjazlnc, it was intended that they should l^e 

 collected and published in a separate volume. The death of the 

 then Proprietor, however, with several other causes which it is 

 unnecessary to particularize, prevented that intention from being 

 carried into effect. 



On the first appearance of these Letters many characters were 

 introduced that had either retired from the Sporting World, or had/ 

 departed for "that bourne from whence no traveller returns : " but 

 if the allusions to by-gone days were then considered of interest, 

 they must of necessity be more so now, as reminiscences of men, 

 who, unlike the Squire Westerns of the olden time, constituted 

 Hunting a science, and combined the courtesies of Elegant Life 

 with the socialities of the Old English Gentleman. 



The writings of Nimeod are too well known to need any apology 

 for thus collecting them into one volume : — they embrace a mine of 

 information and a fund of entertaining anecdote on sporting subjects 

 and characters unexampled in the annals of the Chase : in addition 

 to which, to use a favorite term of Blacktcood, the writer has more 

 (jiunption in his style and observations than any other Chronicler of 

 the events he records. 



It was at first intended to arrange the counties alphabetically, 

 and to give a continuous history of each pack of hounds from the 



