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anyone ; my object has been at least to please (I could 

 hardly expect to amuse), and my only ambition is to have a 

 still kindly feeling extended towards me by those in whose 

 sport I once tried to assist. I always had a host of friends, 

 more especially amongst the farmers in the South Durham 

 country ; indeed I verily believe that my* greatest faults 

 were due to having too many. 



' In reading the reminiscences, I would say to all : — 



" Be to ' Jack's ' virtues ever kind. 

 And to his faults a little blind." 

 Just as I am correcting this proof, a letter arrives from Mr. Robert Worrall, late huntsman 

 of the V.W.H- (see pages 105, 109), in which he says, " I have always said Jack Bevans 

 was the best whipper-in I ever saw," a sentiment with which I am entirely in accord. 



