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BY GEORGE MAC DONALD, AUTHOR OF "ANNALS OF A QUIET NEIGHBOURHOOD," "THE SEABOARD PARISH," ETC.

CHAPTER I.-INTRODUCTORY.

don't choose that my old name should lie about in the one at home.

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THINK that I am much afraid of writing nonsense, but is the way my father tells me that to see things in print my father is a great help to recognizing whether they would be- are nonsense or not. And he tells me too gin. My that his friend, the publisher, who-but I name is will speak of him presently-his friend the Ethelwyn publisher is not like any other publisher he Percivale, ever met with before, for he is so fond of and used to good work that he never grumbles at any be Ethelwyn alterations writers choose to make-at least Walton. I he never says anything, although it costs a always put great deal to shift the types again after they the Walton are once set up. The other part of my exin between cuse for attempting to write, lies simply in when I write telling how it came about. to my father, Ten days ago, my father came up from for I think Marshmallows, to pay us a visit. He is with it is quite us now, but we don't see much of him all enough to day, for he is generally out with a friend of have to leave his in the East End, the parson of one of the father and poorest parishes in London-who thanks God mother behind for a husband, without leaving that he wasn't the nephew of any bishop to their name behind you also. I am fond of be put into a good living, for he learns more lumber rooms, and in some houses consider about the ways of God from having to do them far the most interesting spots; but I with plain-yes, vulgar human nature, than

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