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him the truth most strictly—I have not smoothed one difficulty in the 
relating it. I have only warned him against mistakes into which I 
fell, and which he may avoid. 
And in saying “Good bye,” I can only add that I shall always be 
glad to help others, as I was helped years ago, by the friend to whom 
I referred in the first chapter of this series. 
To that friend I dedicate, now that I am saying farewell to 
falconry on paper, these five chapters especially—because they, in 
some measure, record the result of his instructions; and, indeed, 
without his disinterested kindness at the beginning, which led to 
our close friendship towards the end, I should not have been able 
to write anything at all. 
