Excerpt from Wild Sports of the West: With Legendary Tales, and Local Sketches That the scenic and personal sketches are faithful, the reader is assured; some were written on the spot, and others traced from vivid recollection. Those with whom the author shot these wild moors, or fished the waters, will best estimate the fidelity of the descriptions; and one valued friend, though now beneath another sun, will probably recall the days he spent by fell and flood, and bring to memory those light and joyous nights when he caroused in a mountain bivouac, and rested in a moor land hut. Of the actors in the following scenes, scrne are still living, while others are no more. The Colonel, that best and honestest of boon companions, sleeps with his fathers and old John and the Otter-killer have gone the way of all flesh. The Priest, mine honoured friend, I rejoice to say, is still healthy and vigorous; in his wild but happy retirement he holds the noiseless tenour of his way, exercises hospitality most liberally to the stranger, and throws forty feet of silk and hair better than any artist in the empire. Last of the dramatis personae, Hennessey is in full force, and mutato nomine, may still be found in Ballycroy. 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.