TO HIS EXCELLENCY, 

 HORATIO SEYMOUR. 



BEFORE you became a leader of a great political party, 

 ^r the chief magistrate of a great State, you loved tha 

 woods, the lakes, the deep shadows of the forest and t,he 

 mountain streams to throw the fly for the speckled trout 

 in river or brook, 



" To follow the stag, o'er the slippery crag, 

 And to chase the bounding roe" 



Permit me, then, respectfully to dedicate to you, not as 

 the highest executive officer of the Empire State, but aa 

 a chivalrous and enthusiastic sportsman, the following 

 vork. 



Tea ACTTHO*. 



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