TO A. B. F. KINNEY. 



'^ FRIEND of thirty years" acquaintance, and the best 

 hY all-around sportsman I have ever met ; a man 

 * \ equally expert with rifle, gun or flyrod ; who has 

 killed game of ever}^ species that the American 

 Continent affords, from the grizzly bear to the ubiquitous 

 rabbit, from the wild goose and its rival in migratory flight 

 — the mysterious brant — to the solitude-loving woodcock, 

 and who is besides what the world affectionately calls "a 

 royal good fellow." To him this book is respectfully 

 dedicated by his sincere friend, 



Thomas Martindai.e. 



