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The Story of Wild Will Enderby

Preface to The Second Edition

page III

Preface to The Second Edition.

The favourable reception which this volume has received, both from the Public and the Press, necessitates, thus early, a reprint. I am thereby emboldened to avow my intention of pursuing yet further the story of "Wild Will Enderby." Indeed, I may honestly acknowledge that I am very unwilling to part from Will and the Blue-eyed Maiden on their very wedding day; that I am greatly interested in the sequent adventures of my friend, Mr. George Washington Pratt; that the final issue of the Young Widow's matrimonial speculation powerfully claims my attention; that the bold Sergeant, and Constable Finnegan—Lizzie, the somewhile Housemaid, and honest Janet the Cook—have so won upon me that I am loth to relegate them to entire oblivion. That—to sum up all—I have myself become so attached to these Children of my Imagination as to feel that I cannot yet afford to deprive myself of their pleasurable companionship.

Therefore my auditors and I will meet again ere many months have passed. Till then I bid them—Adieu!

Vincent Pyke.

Wardensthorpe, Nov. 6, 1873.