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PREFACE 



THIS volume contains a selection of the sporting 

 incidents with rod and rifle that have fallen to my 

 lot in portions of two hemispheres during a period 

 extending over thirty years. 



It has been my habit, when shooting or fishing 

 in Scotland and Ireland, and during my different 

 travelling and hunting expeditions in Norway and 

 in North America, to keep a diary or record of 

 the sport enjoyed, as well as frequently to carry 

 a camera, so I hope I may claim for my narrative 

 that it is strictly veracious, if no more. 



At the same time it has been my endeavour to 

 avoid, so far as is consistent with this kind of record, 

 the mere expansion of a shooting and fishing diary, 

 and so the matter is arranged in order of sport rather 

 than chronologically. 



While a greater part of the text is new, some 

 portions have already appeared from time to time 

 as articles in the Badminton and Pall Mall magazines, 

 and in the pages of Country Life and the Pall Mall 

 Gazette. To the respective editors of these publica- 

 tions my grateful acknowledgments are due for 

 leave to reproduce these articles, in some cases 

 rewritten and expanded, in their present form. 



Chapters XIV. and XV. are an attempt to portray 



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