ADVERTISEMENT. 



THE object of this volume is neither to super- 

 sede the works which I have formerly put forth on 

 American Field Sports and Fishing, nor yet to sup- 

 ply any omission in their pages. 



In fact, it is neither an abridgment of pages 

 heretofore written, nor a compendium of facts al- 

 ready published ; nor yet is it entirely an indepen- 

 dent work, on a different branch of the same sub- 

 ject. 



It was found, or believed, to be the case, by the 

 publishers of those works, which, I may be permit- 

 ted to say, have found some favor in the eyes of the 

 sporting world, that a volume of less ambitious style 

 and less expensive form, taking up the subject more 

 rudimentally, commencing actually ab initio, deal- 

 ing more with the practice and less with the higher 

 spirit of Field Sports, insisting less on the natural 



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