PREFACE 



My thanks are due to the Proprietors of Country 

 Sport, for whom the bulk of the articles which 

 make up this book were written, for leave to 

 reproduce them. They have been in some in- 

 stances rewritten, and an occasional chapter has 

 been added, but practically they are given in the 

 same form as they originally appeared. 



As they met with the kind approval of many 

 of my hunting friends, I venture to express the 

 hope that they may please when presented in book 

 form. 



I should add that, though I have carefully 

 refrained from giving names, the anecdotes which 

 I relate actually took place as I relate them, and 

 most of them under my own eyes. In the other 

 cases they were told to me by eye-witnesses. 



WILLIAM SCARTH DIXON. 



York, October 1899. 



