. The American sportsman: . improvements in the art ofwhich it treats have come into generaluse; and with the view of embodyingsuch of these as may be essential to thesj)ortsman of the present day, this revisedand enlarged edition of the work has beenprepared and is now offered to the public. As notable among the improvements in tiiis edition, attention isinvited to the three new chapters on dogs, one of which is devotedto the Origin of the Dog, another to the Science of Breeding,and a third to Breaking, thus bestowing upon this importantsubject a proportionate amount of attention. Other topic
. The American sportsman: . improvements in the art ofwhich it treats have come into generaluse; and with the view of embodyingsuch of these as may be essential to thesj)ortsman of the present day, this revisedand enlarged edition of the work has beenprepared and is now offered to the public. As notable among the improvements in tiiis edition, attention isinvited to the three new chapters on dogs, one of which is devotedto the Origin of the Dog, another to the Science of Breeding,and a third to Breaking, thus bestowing upon this importantsubject a proportionate amount of attention. Other topics of in-terest and importance are either now for the first time introduced—as, for instance, the full description of breech-loaders—or else theprevious treatment of them is so thoroughly revised as to renderthe present volume an exceptionally entertaining and reliablemanual, both for the practical sportsman and others who may beinterested in the literature of field sports. The Publisheus. 4 PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION,. K intelligent, observant sportsman,whether he be a votary of the gentlecraft, or a zealous advocate of the dogand gun, instinctively—yes, oftentimeswithout being in the least consciousof it himself—becomes an impassionedadmirer of nature and natures worksin her most varied and attractiveforms. It is not, as manj/ narrow-minded astutes ignorantly sup-pose, the mere slaugiucr of the timorous partridge which soearly calls him forth tD the stubble-field; neither is it thecoveted possession of the savory woodcock that lures him tothe entangled brake; nor is it the soaring wisps of ficklesnipes which alone entice him to the oozy meadows; noryet the booming grouse that makes him climb the mountain-side or seek the far-ofiT roUiug prairie. There are other incentives, other charms, besides these,0 ye incredulous, pent-up inhabitants of a crowded city,which impel the sportsman, as with a sirens wand, to hiejoyfully away with dog and gun to the fields, to the hill
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