. The American sportsman: containing hints to sportsmen, notes on shooting, and the habits of the game birds and wild fowl of America . is Elorh on f piling IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATEDBY n I S FRIEND AND F 0 11 M E R PUPIL, ELISHA J. LEWIS, My dear Doctor :— A FEW months only have elapsed since the appearanceof the second edition of my book on Sporting; and the pub-lishers, much to my gratification, notify me that they are oncemore in need of another supply. To this flattering appealI most cheerfully assent, and trust that you Avill again findthe volume, on this its third advent, much impro
. The American sportsman: containing hints to sportsmen, notes on shooting, and the habits of the game birds and wild fowl of America . is Elorh on f piling IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATEDBY n I S FRIEND AND F 0 11 M E R PUPIL, ELISHA J. LEWIS, My dear Doctor :— A FEW months only have elapsed since the appearanceof the second edition of my book on Sporting; and the pub-lishers, much to my gratification, notify me that they are oncemore in need of another supply. To this flattering appealI most cheerfully assent, and trust that you Avill again findthe volume, on this its third advent, much improved, as anumber of illustrations have been added and the text, some-what enlarged. With sentiments of the warmest esteem, I am, in allsincerity, My dear Doctor, Most truly and faithfully yours, ELISHA J. LEWIS. To Professor J. K. Mitchell. PREPACE TO THE THIRD N intelligent, observant sportsman,whether lie 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 is not, as many narrow-minded astutes ignorantly sup-pose, the mere slaughter of the timorous partridge which soearly calls hini forth to 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-off rolling 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 hills, tothe rich autumn-tinted
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