NOTE 



THE joint authors of this book beg to acknowledge 

 the courtesy of the proprietors of the undermentioned 

 publications for permission to reprint many of the sketches 

 and verses contained herein : The Field, Punch, Illus- 

 trated Sporting and Dramatic News, Daily's Sporting 

 Magazine, Fores' s Sporting Notes and Sketches, Bad- 

 minton Magazine, Country Life, The Shooting Times, 

 Fishing Gazette, Scottish Field, South Africa, The Globe, 

 Evening Standard, Daily Mail, The Tatler, and Town 

 Topics. 



