WHAT TO BLOW, AND HOW TO BLOW IT. 13 



ADDENDA TO THE THIRD EDITION. 



Since I wrote this little book, ten years have 

 elapsed — ten eventful years to man\' of us ; but the 

 precepts and principles of sounding the Horn remain 

 still unchanged from what they were even ten times 

 ten years ago. I have read the book through again, 

 and I see nothing to alter, nothing to correct, and 

 nothing to regret, except the fact that the book, 

 although cop^Tight, entered at Stationers' Hall and 

 registered at the British Museum in proper form, has 

 been copied b}^ another " author," some of my para- 

 graphs literalh' quoted word for word, and then 

 published by an eminent firm who certainly ought to 

 have known better. Imitation, however, being the 

 sincerest form of flatter}^ although not alwa3^s the 

 pleasantest, I have not 3'et made this piracy a subject 

 for Her Majest3''s High Court of Justice. 



I have, however, often been reproached, perhaps 

 not altogether unjustly, for the small amount of 

 printed matter contained in the first edition.; and I 

 have, therefore, ventured to add a few more remarks 

 upon Coaching affairs generally, in the hope that they 

 will prove interesting, and meet with the same kind 

 approval from my readers. 



I have also been asked to add to what I may call 

 the music portion, by putting underneath the corres- 

 ponding tones or sounds which can be pla^'ed on the 

 pianoforte ; my object being that such of my readers 

 as are not acquainted with music sufficientl}^ to trans- 

 pose, ma\' get their sisters, or their cousins, or their 

 aunts, or someone even dearer (in prospective) to 

 strum them over for them on the pianoforte, thereby 

 enabling them to pick up the various calls correctly 



