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answering, rather than introduce a name 

 whose owner did not wish me to do so. But 

 I think I may hope to win his pardon. Most, 

 if not all, my skill in the saddle is mainly due 

 to the kind and untiring patience of my dear 

 old friend and teacher, Mr. Allan McDonogh, 

 who — despite his threescore years and ten — 

 was, up to the time of his lamentable accident, 

 ever ready to act as my pilot and instructor. 



Enquirer. — Eide a steady horse, and your 

 nerve will come back again. Mine did, after 

 a much more terrible mischance. 



CoRsicAN Brother. — It is not true. 



Critic. — You only discovered one mistake, 

 but there are really three in my story, ^* In 

 Search of a Wonder," which appeared in the 

 Christmas Number of this journal. In place 

 of '* hustled me out of a sort of enclosure," 

 read ** to a sort of enclosure." Also, ^^ sudden- 

 ness " requires two n's, and ** carrattella " is 

 the correct way to spell a word which signifies 

 a small cart or rough carriage peculiar to the 

 Piedmontese. These are all printer's errors, 

 and should have been corrected by me, but I 

 revised my proof in a crowded coffee-room of 



