Note to the Author’s Edition. 
dealing with “Country sub- 
ts ” have never been so popular 
they are to-day ; and yielding, 
so opportune a time, to a very 
widely-expressed desire to re-issue his books, 
which, though long out of print, have obtained a 
popular welcome that has been extended to them 
in every English-speaking Country in the World, 
the Author has determined to do so through 
the medium of “ The Country Press,” which 
has been established with the especial object 
of publishing volumes at a moderate, and, as 
far as possible, at a uniform price, on all matters 
(so deeply interesting, especially to those in 
cities pent) relating to the Country and to 
Country pursuits. 
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