IX 



PREFACE. 



chapters on matters of interest to the sports- 

 man. Such as they are, I offer them to the 

 public, trusting that they will receive them 

 as the off- hand thoughts and observations 

 of one who is more accustomed to the hill- 

 side than to the study — to the gun than to 

 the pen. 



\Janvary 1849.] 



