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as illustrations, when I shall have other work to do in 

 heaven, or be unfitted to continue the work on earth. 



This volume is the last of the series ; the first, " The 

 Five Barred Gate," published in 1881, I am glad to see, 

 has reached a sixth edition. 



A few illustrations of ridiculous misprints in advertise- 

 ments and reports of these stories may close this chapter 

 on personal reminiscences. 



Imagine my horror, then, one evening, on entering 

 a lecture hall at the West End, the subject being the 

 " Life and Adventures of a Gnat," to find large posters on 

 the doors, announcing the subject as " The Life and 

 Adventures of a Goat I " What a difference may one 

 single letter make ! 



In a lecture once given at Chichester, a long report 

 of which attracted my attention in the West Sussex Gazette, 

 where I said the cockchafer had 8820 lenses, making so 

 many hmdles of compound microscopes, the report made 

 out that I had stated them to be so many " bushels " of 

 microscopes. 



" The Horses of the Sun " was very recently noticed 

 by a Keviewer as " The Houses of the Sun." 



Lastly, let me say that some of my best and dearest 

 friends are those gained in the pursuit of my favourite 

 study ; a study, for the great privilege of enjoying and 

 pursuing of which I desire to thank God with my whole 

 heart. It has been to me and, my reader, may it be to 

 you an introduction to a new world, a world, I mean 

 within a world, bringing with it a gradually increasing 

 accumulation of true riches ; leaving always a thirst for 

 more, with the assurance that, if we see God in all His 

 mighty works here, we shall see all His works in Him, 

 no longer " through a glass darkly," but face to face ; and 

 let us never once forget that while we are looking into 



