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CHAPTER VII. 



FALLACIES AND FACTS. 



Triplett's Facts and Fictions — The Legislature Misled — My First 

 Greenfinch and my Second Greenfinch — Tottie, the Tame Stoat 

 — Teaching Humanity — Infant Education — Travellers' Tales. 



In writing this work, which may amount to a 



book of reference upon all sporting subjects, as 



well as upon matters connected with portions of 



natural history, I bind myself to no narration 



which is not based on honest truth, and known to 



me by personal observation and adventure. 



There is a most amusing little volume, which I 



have read so often that I have almost got it by 



heart, called 'Peg Woffington,' by Mr. Charles 



Eeade : this book particularly delights me ; it hits 



so hard upon the inflammatory action of would-be 



authors as to their '' facts and fictions," — so hard, 



indeed, that by way of illustration I must borrow 



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