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DEDICATION 



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HARTCUP, 



mother who found interest in these pages 



and who to the end was fond of quiet reading about country 

 things lived to see them finished, I should have asked, as some 



small token of their authors affection and respect, to be allowed 

 ^ 

 ^^ to set her name upon a book that tells of the home where she was 



born and the fields in which she spent her distant youth. 



HK But it cannot be ; so to you, as a friend and fellow inhabitant 



of Arcady, to you who also have had experience of the frowning 



y face of adverse agricultural balance sheets, I venture to offer 



^ them. 



v Believe me 



Ever sincerely yours, 



H. RIDER HAGGARD. 



DlTCHINGHAM : 1899. 



HERBERT HARTCUP, ESQ. 



