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magazines, but especially for Longman's. He 

 also contributed to the Standard, the St. 

 James's, the Pall Mall, the Graphic, the 

 World, and other papers. Most of these 

 articles he gathered together as soon as there 

 were enough of them, and published them in 

 a volume. In this way he made a little more 

 out of them. He even contrived to save a 

 little money. But his income was never very 

 great. 



The first five of the works on the country 

 life were published by Messrs. Smith and 

 Elder. These were the "Gamekeeper at Home," 

 "Wild Life in a Southern County," " The 

 Amateur Poacher," "Greene Feme Farm," 

 and "Round About a Great Estate." Then 

 he did either a very foolish or a very unfortu- 

 nate thing. He left Messrs. Smith and Elder, 

 and for the rest of his life he went about 

 continually changing his publisher, always 

 in the hope of getting a better price for 

 his volumes, and always chafing at the 

 smallness of the pecuniary result. An author 

 should never change his publisher, unless he is 

 compelled to do so by the misfortune of starting 



