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1911
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To
HORACE HOWARD FURNESS
of Lindenshade, Wallingford
When this October comes, twenty years will be sped since the author ofthese Western tales sat down one evening to begin his first tale of theWest, and—will you forgive him a preamble of gossip, of retrospection?Time steps in between the now that is and the then that was with avengeance; it blocks the way for us all; we cannot go back. When the oldcorner, the old place, the old house, wear the remembered look, beckonto the memory as if to say, No change here! then verily is the changeworst, the shell most empty, the cheat well-nigh too piercing. In acertain garden I used to plunder in 1866, the smell to-day of warm,dusty strawberries.... But did we admit to our c