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best liquor that can be obtained ; then your mind, 

 filled with present complacency, must travel back 

 over these pages, and forgetting the faults and par- 

 doning the errors, acknowledge that if in them you 

 have not found an instructor, you have found a 

 brother sportsman ; and, for the sake of the bond 

 that binds all members of the gentle craft together, 

 if you cannot conscientiously praise the manner or 

 the matter of these pages, you will utter no word to 

 discourage an effort that, while pointing out and 

 dwelling upon the beauties of nature in our wonder- 

 ful country, and the pure attractions it offers to the 

 lovers of our art, has principally been to maintain 

 the healthy and ennobling nature of field-sports ; to 

 urge the protection, at proper seasons, of the game 

 that still lingers in our woods and waters ; and to 

 elevate to a proud standard of honorable, generous, 

 and merciful rivalry the sportsmanship of America. 



THE END. 



