6 WHY. 



criticism. To claim for it any thing more than a 

 description of a sportsman's pleasures, by \ keen 

 lover of nature, would be magnificently absurd. 



To the many friends who have encouraged this 

 publication, I know that its pages will sometimes be 

 welcome. 



To those who have visited and enjoyed the locali- 

 ties it describes, I hope it may be. If it should call 

 up to all who may read it some happy remembrances 

 of the past, the why and the wherefore will have been 

 accomplished. 



THE AUTHOR. 



BOSTON, August, iSSo. 





