INTRODUCTION 



BECK HOUSE, 



GlGGLESWICK, 



Feb. I2th, 1922. 



MY DEAR CLAPHAM, I am much flattered at 

 your invitation to write an introduction to your 

 " Book of the Otter," and only wish I were a good 

 enough hand with the pen to do your most 

 interesting book the justice it deserves. 



If I were asked to find fault with your work I 

 should say its only failing was its brevity. And 

 I would ask for a few more hunts and to have 

 them rather more elaborated. And if you could 

 not only expound to whips, either amateur or 

 professional, how you do your own work as such 

 but make them into whips as good as yourself 



thereby you would take an enormous amount of 



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