Excerpt from Shooting on Upland, Marsh, and Stream: A Series of Articles Written by Prominent Sportsmen, Descriptive of Hunting the Upland Birds of America, Exposing Their Flights, Habits, Resorts, and the Most Successful Manner of Pursuing Them With the Gun; And Treating Especially of the Scientific Metho The flattering reception with which Wild Fowl Shooting was received throughout the United States, and portions Of the Old World, was the incentive for the publication Of this book; for, acting on the solicitations of many Of the sport-ing fraternity, who love the fresh ness of the field and the purity of the prairie winds, I bring into the world another book, which I trust and believe will be equally acceptable and enjoyable, and one that will teach to this and to the coming generation that there is a nobility Of character in the true sportsman, that will ever Show itself, whether at home or in the field, and that our love Of field sports does not arise from the desire to slaughter needlessly the feathered game, or mercilessly to extinguish animal kind, but leads to the protection Of game; and that, when the law is Open to us, our pleasures are equally divided between bagging the birds, and seeing the dogs, filled with animation, bound ing over hill and dale, or standing entranced and petri fied as they point the hidden game. TO see the whir ring birds, that cause Our hearts to throb in fluttering excitement, to wander over the fields in the warm, bud ding spring-time, when the earth is clothed in bridal raiments, or when the golden summer, rich in her harvest, has dotted the earth with sheaves Of ripened grain - this is our enjoyment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.