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Far Away and Long Ago

It was never my intention to write an autobiography. Since I took to writing in my middle years I have, from time to time, related some incident of my boyhood, and these are contained in various chapters in _The Naturalist in La Plata, Birds and Man, Adventures among Birds,_ and other works, also in two or three magazine articles: all this material would have been kept back if I had contemplated such a book as this. When my friends have asked me in recent years why I did not write a history of my early life on the pampas, my answer was that I had. | Far Away and Long Ago 1 Far Away and Long Ago The Project Gutenberg EBook of Far Away and Long Ago by W. H. Hudson 4 in our series by W. H. Hudson Copyright laws are changing all over the world. Be sure to check the copyright laws for your country before downloading or redistributing this or any other Project Gutenberg eBook. This header should be the first thing seen when viewing this Project Gutenberg file. Please do not remove it. Do not change or edit the header without written permission. Please read the legal small print and other information about the eBook and Project Gutenberg at the bottom of this file. Included is important information about your specific rights and restrictions in how the file may be used. You can also find out about how to make a donation to Project Gutenberg and how to get involved. Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts eBooks Readable By Both Humans and By Computers Since 1971 These eBooks Were Prepared By Thousands of Volunteers Title Far Away and Long Ago Author W. H. Hudson Release Date July 2004 EBook 6093 Yes we are more than one year ahead of schedule This file was first posted on November 4 2002 Edition 10 Language English Character set encoding ASCII START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FAR AWAY AND LONG AGO Juliet Sutherland Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. FAR AWAY AND LONG AGO A HISTORY OF MY EARLY LIFE BY W. H. HUDSON Author of Idle Days In Patagonia The Purple Land A Crystal Age Adventures Among Birds Etc. CONTENTS CHAPTER I 2 CHAPTER I EARLIEST MEMORIES Preamble--The house where I was born--The singular ombu tree--A tree without a name--The plain--The ghost of a murdered slave--Our playmate the old sheep-dog--A first riding-lesson--The cattle an evening scene--My mother--Captain Scott--The hermit and his awful penance CHAPTER II MY NEW HOME We quit our old home--A winter day journey--Aspect of the country--Our new home--A prisoner in the barn--The plantation--A paradise