"And I promise you shootinge, by my judgment, is the most honeste pastime of See how the well-taught pointer leads the way; The scent grows warm; he stops; he springs the prey; The fluttering covey from the stubble rise, And on swift wing divide the sounding skies!" [GAY-Rural Sports. NEW YORK: C. M. SAXTON, BARKER & CO., No. 25 PARK ROW. 1860. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by C. M. SAXTON & COMPANY In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Southern District of New York G DEDICATION. TO HENRY WILLIAM HERBERT, ESQ., 66 THE CEDARS," NEW JERSEY. DEAR SIR: Knowing you only through your works, I take the liberty of inscribing to you these "Loose Chapters," on a subject which your own pen has so fully adorned, conscious that the chief merit in them is to be found in those portions which you, and other "shooting" friends, have contributed to them. If this little book incites the young Sportsman to read your own unequalled "Field Sports," it will have accomplished its main purpose. Respectfully, Your obedient Servant, THE AUTHOR, |