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Excerpt from The Peasant Speech of Devon: And Other Matters Connected Therewith The unexpected rapidity with which the first edition of my unpretending book was taken up has made it necessary to prepare a second for the press within some six months. Though much pressed for time, I have made a careful revision of the whole work, and many slight defects which had inevitably crept in have been removed. For those which still remain I ask the reader's indulgence. The kindly welcome which 'The Peasant Speech of Devon' has received on all hands has been a source of deep pleasure to me. Her Majesty the Queen was graciously pleased to accept a copy for the Royal Library at Windsor: and from all ranks of society the book has met with gratifying evidence of sympathy. I have also to thank the press, both London and country, for many kind notices and appreciative criticisms; and if some of my reviewers' suggestions have not been adopted, it is not for want of careful consideration. Some, in themselves valuable, would have required an extension of the scale of my book, for which my time is, alas! utterly insufficient. To exhaustiveness it makes no pretensions. Its sole claim is as a faithful record of the homely Devonshire speech, and that as such it has l)een accepted by Devonians all the world over, cannot but fill a Devonshire woman with some pardonable pride. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.