FOREWORD. 



When my husband asked me to write the foreword to this 

 little book I was glad, for no one except the author can feel so 

 great an interest in this as I do. His articles and pictures for 

 the outdoor magazines have been a pleasure to both of us, and 

 it has long been my desire to see them gathered into a volume 

 in permanent form. 



In "Memories of Bygone Days" there is no morbid 

 tendency to disparage present joys, but simply a wholesome 

 retrospect. 



"Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain 

 Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain." 



We may make of memory a blessing or a curse, just as 

 we will. It is a stupendous thought that we are augmenting or 

 decreasing future pleasure by the way we spend today. "The 

 only use we have for our past is to get a future out of it." 



"All the pleasures of today 



One by one soon glide away 



To the golden shore of sweet long ago." 



Happy is that man whose memories are pleasant and 

 profitable company. 



ALICE KIMBALL STEELE. 

 Hastings, Nebraska. 



