62 EEVELATIONS OF A EAT-CATCHEK. 



day's pleasure into a remunerative business, by 

 reason of the income from the Eats, and I find 

 from experience that the best friends he has 

 are his dog and ferrets, if he will look well after 

 them and treat them kindly, for I think that a 

 Eat-catcher in the country without a good 

 dog might walk over scores of Eats and never 

 know they were there, so you will see that 

 his dog is chiefly what he has to trust to. 



And now, in conclusion, let me express the 

 hope that this book will prove instructive, 

 entertaining, and profitable to my readers, 

 inasmuch as I have endeavoured to make it 

 so to the best of my ability and within the 

 somewhat limited scope and sphere of a Eat- 

 catcher 's calling. Of course, I might have 

 made the narrative portion of the book more 

 startling and exciting, had I drawn upon my 

 imagination, but I have thought it best to 

 adhere to cold fact and actual experience. 



