To my wife, Alice Lee, I dedicate this hook, 

 because it is a,s much hers as mine. She 

 shared the experiences herein, recorded, and 

 her influence is in every page. " My Winter 

 Garden " is our winter garden. We tramped 

 together in all the places I have described ; 

 we camped together on lonely spots ; we sat 

 together on tlie breezy bluffs and read, 

 sketched, and made notes. She carried my 

 extra arrows on many a shooting-ground, 

 where the birds were wary and wild. Why 

 should not her name be here? To with- 

 hold it would be to rob my book of a right, 

 and to deny myself an ineffable pleasure. 



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