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course to be pursued ; for, of field sports, as of most 

 other sublunary matters, it is true, especially in 

 countries comparatively new, where population and 

 cultivation are progressively increasing, and the 

 wild animals of the chase proportionally on the 

 decrease, that, 



Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis ; 



and in the space which has elapsed since first I 

 wrote on " the sports of the field," in this country, 

 there has been ample room for change, and change 

 has not failed the occasion. 



To conclude, all that genuinely comes within 

 the scope of the " Sports of the Field," especially as 

 regards novices, will be touched upon summarily in 

 this little work, which may, in some respects, be 

 regarded as introductory, in a few, perhaps, as sup- 

 plemental, to my more thorough and voluminous 

 publications ; but must not be expected in any sort 

 to supersede them, as their greater compass enables 

 them to embrace fully many topics which are not, 

 as indeed they need not to be, so much as men- 

 tioned in the following pages. 



The Cedars, 1856. 



