INTRODUCTION 



In submitting this book le reading 



public I confess to a certain sei.se of embar- 

 rassment. . 



I should like from the first to warn my 

 readers against harbouring any false illusions. 



I do not pretend to claim any literary merit 

 for these plain, unadorned little sketches. 

 There is nothing particularly striking about 

 them ; they do not bring to light any sensational 

 revelations. 



They are just pages taken from the hunting 

 diary of a man who loves open-air sport, and 

 to whom Nature, grand and beautiful, is an 

 inexhaustible source of delight and joy. 



I have a great admiration for Ganghofer, 

 Perfall, Schillings, and many others who have 

 written so admirably of sport and life in the 

 open, both as hunters and as men of letters. 



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