RAMBLES & ADVENTURES OF OUR SCHOOL FIELD-CLUB. BY G. CHRISTOPHER DAVIES, AUTHOR OF "MOUNTAIN MEADOW AND MERe," etc. PREFACE. My preface will be short and to the point. First, let me acknowledge the help my father, Mr D. C. Davies, of Oswestry, has given me by contributing the two geological papers contained in Chapters xxiv. and xxv. Second, let me frankly confess-what most who know me would have guessed on reading this book-that it is in a great measure a record of part of my own boyish life, a life which was rendered very happy by the wise indulgence and kindly restraint of the best parents a boy could have. I am still a boy at heart, and it gives me the keenest pleasure to write that which I hope will form a link between the boys of the generation succeeding me and myself. NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, G. C. D. |