TO THE READER. 



So one work that I am aware of contains the information that 

 is proposed for this little treatise, which does not aspire to any 

 great originality of idea ; but the author having experienced in 

 his early days very great difficulty in finding to his hand a 

 concise treatise, was induced to cull, from various authors what 

 he found most beneficial in practice, into manuscript, and this 

 collection he is induced to make public, in the hopes that any 

 one " who runs may read," and; without searching through 

 many and various voluminous authors, may find the cream, 

 leaving the skim milk behind. 



Wherever any known quotation is made, credit has been 

 given to the proper persons, but it may be as well to state that 

 most if not all of the Receipts are copies, though from what 

 book is in a great measure unknown to the author, who 

 extracted them in bygone days for his own use. 



With this admission, he trusts that his readers will rest satis- 

 fied with the little volume which he offers to their indulgent 



criticism. 



"Dnres." 



Fort Maldtji, Canada Wat, 



