PREFACE. 



Tpie very favourable reception accorded to my 

 " Sketches in the Hunting Field " has induced 

 me to hope that another book of sketches and 

 stories, on precisely the same lines, may have 

 the good fortune to find friends. Of this I am 

 the more sanguine as Mr. John Sturgess, who 

 did so much for the success of the former 

 volume, has again given me his most valuable 

 assistance. 



I have to thank the proprietor of The llhis- 

 tratecl Sjwrtiyig and Dramatic Neios and the 

 editor of The Standard for permission to reprint 

 matter contributed to those journals. 



A. E. T. W. 



15, C11EMI8T0N Gardens, Kensington, W., 

 Odvlvr, 1883. 



