IV ■ TREFACE. 



I. have studied tlie nature and habiis of animals of dif- 

 ferent species, and a plan that was good to capture the 

 otter, the mink, and the beaver, forty years ago, is just as 

 good now as then. The nature of animals doesn't change 

 like the nature of men ; we have grown wiser while they 

 have remained the same. The mode of capturing them 

 when I was a boy and the way used now may be put to- 

 gether, and succeed better than cither one alone. 



Men are traveling through the country selling recipes at 



a high price to teach how to dress skins. I j^ropose in 



this work to teach all these things, so that a man may have 



them in a neat little volume for reference at any time. I 



shall also treat upon angling for the trout, the bass, and 



the pickerel, which I think I understand. I hope to make 



it all so plain that even the inexperienced will, in some 



measure, succeed. 



H. T. 



