It May Be, My Dear Grandchildren, That At One Time Or Another I
Have Told You Nearly All The Incidents Which Have Occurred during my
Adventurous Life. To Your Father And To Your Mother, At Least, I Know
That None Of Them Are Unfamiliar. Yet When I Consider That Time Wears
On, And That A Grey Head Is Apt To Contain A Failing memory, I Am
Prompted to Use These Long Winter Evenings In putting it All Before
You From The Beginning, That You May Have It As One Clear Story In your
Minds, And Pass It On As Such To Those Who Come After You. For Now That
The House Of Brunswick Is Firmly Established upon The Throne And That
Peace Prevails In the Land, It Will Become Less Easy For You Every
Year To Understand How Men Felt When Englishmen Were In arms Against
Englishmen, And When He Who Should Have Been The Shield And The
Protector Of His Subjects Had No Thought But To Force Upon Them What
They Most Abhorred and Detested.
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