PREFACE. 



yielding to that roaming propensity, so charac- 

 teristic of the Englishman, leave behind them 

 for a while the ledger or the loom, and seek 

 relief from the sedentary occupations of a town 

 life, in the bracing climate and invigorating 

 recreations to be found in the " land of the 

 mountain and the flood." It is for such as 

 these the following pages are chiefly intended. 

 The author, himself a mere tyro in the branches 

 of sport therein treated of, would give to brother- 

 beginners some idea of the enjoyment which is 

 attainable by all who may be possessed of 

 ordinary activity and perseverance. With this 

 object in view, he has endeavoured to give a 

 faithful narrative of his own experiences; and 

 while, for the advantage and warning of the 

 novice, he has not left unrecorded his own 

 errors, he would humbly deprecate severe criti- 

 cism at the hands of the more experienced 

 veteran. 



