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some more human aspects of wild western life as 

 I actually found it in my own personal experience. 

 The last chapter, on ' Sporting Rifles and their Use,' 

 is a brief endeavour to deal with a subject of common 

 interest to all deer-stalkers and big-game hunters, and 

 one that I have always found attractive. 



Of the illustrations, three are from original drawings, 

 for which I am indebted to Mr. E. Caldwell. The 

 remainder are all reproductions from my own photo- 

 graphs, one of Mr. CaldwelFs drawings the live 

 buffalo being an accurate representation of one of 

 these photographs. 



I am conscious of the many shortcomings of this 

 book. It has been written and compiled during the 

 strain and stress of a busy life, and in the intervals of 

 an arduous Parliamentary session. But the kindly 

 favour with which my previous articles were received 

 by my brother-sportsmen has encouraged me to this 

 further pleasant task pleasant, because we all of us 

 like ' to fight our battles o'er again.' 



My design, then, has been, not so much to instruct 

 and to inform, as, perchance, to amuse and entertain. 

 If the volume serves for my general readers to 

 while away a leisure hour; for the fraternity of 

 fishing and shooting men to remind some of their 

 own holidays ; and for the younger generation to 

 encourage a few to the reasonable pursuit, when 

 opportunity arises, of health-giving and virile relaxa- 

 tions then its object is amply attained. 



H. S-K. 



47, CHESTER SQUARE, S.W., 

 July, 1904. 



