Excerpt from Memories of by-Gone Days<br><br>When my husband asked me to write the foreword to this little book I was glad, for no one except the author can feel so great an interest in this as I do. His articles and pictures for the outdoor magazines have been a pleasure to both of us, and it has long been my desire to see them gathered into a volume in permanent form.<br><br>In Memories of Bygone Days there is no morbid tendency to disparage present joys, but simply a wholesome retrospect.<br><br>Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain.<br><br>We may make of memory a blessing or a curse, just as we will. It is a stupendous thought that we are augmenting or decreasing future pleasure by the way we spend today. The only use we have for our past is to get a future out of it.<br><br>All the pleasures of today One by one soon glide away To the golden shore of sweet long ago.<br><br>Happy is that man whose memories are pleasant and profitable company. Alice kimball steele.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.