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The reader, I trust, will kindly excuse the length of 

 these extracts, not only on account of their own merits, 

 but because they would have been welcome to Pocock, 

 their literary feeling would have cheered him their 

 native origin pleased him, while their authors' "self- 

 help " would have encouraged him ; and that these 

 and their other stanzas would have been right welcome 

 at his press who can doubt it ? 



GEORGE M. AENOLD. 



MILTON HALL, GBAVESEND, 

 26th October, 1882. 



