Excerpt from The Fifth Series of Wiltshire Rhymes and Tales in the Wiltshire Dialect

I take this opportunity of thanking the residents of Wiltshire and adjoining counties for their kind appreciation of my rustic effusions, my first three series being exhausted and a few copies only of the last on hand. I wish also to record a tribute of sincere respect to the memory of my late publisher, mr. F. A. Blake, to whose sound advice and untiring exertions must be mainly attributed the success of my previous publications.

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