RECORDS OF OLD TIMES 



HISTORICAL, SOCIAL, POLITICAL, SPORTING 

 AND AGRICULTURAL 



J. KERSLEY FOWLER ('RUSTICUS') 



formerly of the Prel-)endal Farm, Aylesbury 



AUTHOR OF 

 'ECHOES OF OLD COUNTY LIFE* AND ' RECOLLECTIONS OF OLD COUNTRY LIFE* 



* How strange are the tricks of memory, which after a hazy dream about the 

 most important events of a man's life, religiously preserves the merest trifles ! 

 And how very unpleasant to meet oneself thirty years younger! ' — Life of Bukton 



* When you say to a well-known man, " You ought to write your memoirs," 

 it is a polite way of giving him to understand that he is no longer fit for any- 

 thing else. Still people continue to publish their reminiscences, because a man 

 likes to call up his souvenirs, and because, as a result of evoking them for himself, 

 the moment comes when he is seized by a desire to communicate them to his 

 contemporaries' — Henri Rochefort 



WITH NINE ILLUSTRATIONS 



LONDON 



CHATTO & W INDUS 



1898 



