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to enjoy tbem had not derogated with me and 

 was not Ukely to do so with him. Fate, how- 

 ever, willed otherwise. I have had no son to 

 live beyond infancy. I am the last male of my 

 family, and the last of my name ; a Frankenstein 

 on earth. Well, well, be it so, " Chacun a Son 

 Tour,'* I have had mine. It has at least 

 furnished my humble pen with a theme wherein 

 to embody past scenes, past feelings, and past 

 pleasures. I draw on a fund of experience and 

 incident. Let me hope this is sometimes brought 

 forward with utility to some, perchance with amuse- 

 ment to others ; when my store is exhausted, I am 

 quite willing, like many of the impressions and 

 circumstances I record, to become as them, a 

 thing passed, but not perhaps like them, re- 

 membered. 



But no more of this prosing. Turn we to 

 topics more german to the present purpose ; our 

 peroration has been chiefly on the opinions 

 certain persons entertain of Field Sports and 



