The weather and the changes of the seasons are such common and
convenient topics that one need not apologize for talking about
them, though he says nothing new.
Still less need one make an apology if he becomes garrulous in
relation to scenes which are now hidden from him by a curtain of
darkness, or concerning some humble acquaintances with whom he
was once on familiar terms, but who now and hereafter can only
be memories, though they are yet near him and he may still hear
their voices.
So without excuse I offer this collection of sketches, which
with a few exceptions were first published in the columns of
"Forest and Stream."
R. E. R.