Excerpt from The Border Rover

I believe it is customary, when an individual sets out to write an autobiography, to begin at the begin ning - that is to say, with his first recollection - and give a detailed account of the passing of his earliest years. I shall not adopt this plan, because, in the first place, the earlier years of my existence were not marked with events of peculiar interest to the reader, and in the second place, my narrative is intended merely as a chronicle of the most remarkable scenes and adventures through which I passed after arriving at the age of manhood. It may not be improper, ' however, to devote a few words to my birth, parent age and past life, in order to fairly introduce myself to the reader, with whom it is my design to make a rather long, and I hope agreeable, journey.

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