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one can be, to steadfastly abide by such 

 a declaration as long as it shall please 

 Providence to permit me to remain on 

 this side 



" That undiscover'd country, from whose bourn 

 No traveller returns." 



Gentlemen, it would be insincere on 

 my part it would be an injustice to your 

 characters as country gentlemen and as 

 magistrates it would be injurious to my 

 own children, and to those of others, if I, 

 for a moment, concealed what I firmly 

 believe to have been your principal mo- 

 tive in affording me your encouragement 

 and support in my present undertaking. 

 You knew, Gentlemen, my late father, 

 and you were personally aware, that he 

 possessed, in addition to the secondary 

 qualities of being an excellent fly-fisher, 

 the far more sterling ones of being an 

 honest man of being a man worthy of a 



