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INTRODUCTORY EPISTLE

FROM

CAPTAIN CLUTTERBUCK,

OF HIS MAJESTY'S ——— REGIMENT OF INFANTRY,

TO

THE AUTHOR OF "WAVERLEY."



Sir,
Although I do not pretend to the pleasure of your personal acquaintance, like many who I believe to be equally strangers to you, I am nevertheless interested in your publications, and desire their continuance;—not that I pretend to much taste in fictitious composition, or that I am apt to be interested in your grave scenes, or amused by those which are meant to be lively. I will not disguise from you, that I have yawned over the last interview of MacIvor and his