X INTRODUCTION. 



of his later life, more worthy of the experienced 

 sportsman's perusal), trusting that they may find a 

 response in the increased pulsation of many a 

 young and gallant heart. 



Whatever merit these pages may possess, if 

 any, the author feels a satisfaction in stating 

 that the incidents related are substantially true, 

 and contain actual experiences of his early life 

 as a sportsman (of course with names and places 

 slightly altered), and as such he must leave them : 

 having said this much, he goes at it as he would at 

 a bullfinch, viz., throws his heart over, and trusts 

 with luck to get to the other side, safely he hopes, 

 possibly with a scramble, but at all events without 

 a fall, only asking the reader to be — 



" To his virtues ever kind, 

 And to his faults a little blind." 



