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The heading I have selected is an ambitious one ; 

 nor do I, upon consideration, choose to alter it, 

 unless, of course, it is proved to be exaggerated, 

 when I will haul down my flag and acknowledge my 

 error. 



When, twenty years ago, I published a book 

 called " Accessible Field Sports," many of the press 

 took exception to the title of the work, because 

 the scenes I described were across the Atlantic 

 Ocean ; but there are very few of our thorough 

 sportsmen nowadays, who have not found the 

 Rockies, nay, even their Pacific foot-hill, easy of 

 access. However, I am not going so far West by 

 many and many a mile, but will halt at the Cen- 

 tral States of Indiana and Illinois — about eight 

 or nine days' journey from our capital — for the 

 traveller to enjoy the pleasure which he may an- 

 ticipate. The expense of a two months' trip to these 

 abundantly-stocked haunts of the Gnllinago Wilsonii 

 is not great — in fact, little more than a person of 

 ordinary means would spend in the same space of 

 time at home, about fifty pounds. It would be dis- 

 tributed thus : 20/. return ticket to New York ; from 

 that city to shooting-ground and back, 5/.; with cost 

 of living about i/. \os. a week. If the sportsman 

 stops at a farmhouse this last item can be reduced 

 one-half. 



