No one person can fitly describe a neighborhood, no matter how long known, how well loved. Yet records of what is lovely and of good report in a district should be treasured and preserved, however imperfectly. My fathers name, not mine, should rightly be signed to these pages, for it is his intimate knowledge of our countryside, loved and explored with a boys ardor and a naturalists insight since childhood, which they strive to set down. I have taken care to write almost wholly of two or more generations ago, and of persons who, with few exceptions, have now passed out of this life; and I have in all cases altered names, and shifted families from one part of the county to another, to avoid possible annoyance to surviving connections. It has even seemed best in some cases though I have done so with reluctance to change the names of villages, of hills and streams, as well.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
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