PREFACE 



In behalf of the Publisher, I wish to acknowledge 

 indebtedness to the courtesy of Harper & Brothers tor 

 the use of an article written thirty years ago by Charles 

 Hallock in "The Fishing Tourist," and to ■toic/i 

 ■Top/rs for the use of parts of an article on the old and 

 the changed Adirondacks. 



Louis Rhead. 



