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These remarks are addressed to the young, in the hope that when they arrive at man’s estate they will use their best endeavours to do away with Law 91.

To the present generation, already acquainted with “the Game,” I should no more presume to offer advice than I should presume to teach my lamented Grandmother to suck eggs, if she were still alive.

“To instruct them, no art could ever reach,

No care improve them and no wisdom teach.”

Proverbs, chap. 27, v. 22.