VI INTRODUCTION. 



lighten a people on the healthful recreation they know not of, 

 and enlist them in the protection of game and fish which 

 unwittingly they may have been aiding the destruction of. 



The author has had the experience necessary to furnish 

 material for interesting sketches ; and being an ardent advo- 

 cate of the protection of game and fish during the close sea- 

 son, and opposed to the wanton slaughter of them during the 

 open season, I again commend this book. 



N. ROWE, 



EDITOR " AMERICAN FIELD." 

 CHICAGO, February 15, 1883. 



