RECOLLECTIONS OF GEOEGE CAETER. 6 



of his sons have followed the same line of life as 

 himself; George, well known with the Fitzwilliam, 

 John, who has tried his fortunes with various packs 

 abroad, and Charles, the youngest, who, it is to be 

 hoped, will tread in his father's footsteps. 



As the whole of George Carter's life may be gathered 

 in reading what follows in his Recollections, little more 

 need be said here. Those recollections speak of his 

 doings in the various countries in which he hunted, 

 and as he was a man of the strictest integrity, of the 

 most simple modesty, and of a most wonderful memory, 

 there was with him no dressing up tales of his per- 

 formances, no exaggeration, but a true and unvarnished 

 account. As one, who while he won his bread and 

 earned his livelihood by hunting, dearly loved the sport 

 for hunting's sake and nothing else, we have brought 

 the old man down to the end of his professional career, 

 and it was after his relinquishing the horn and retiring 

 into private life, that these Recollections of his former 

 days have been gathered from his own mouth, and now 

 sent forth to the public by one who, of somewhat 

 kindred spirit, treasured every one of his kind old 

 mentor's words, and would scorn to be aught but a 

 faithful scribe to so faithful a narrator. 



