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qualities of rooks in general, and the happy future of
dominion over all other creatures which certainly
awaits our race. Then, wishing to vary my studies,
and to drown my still ever-present sorrow by greater
intellectual exertions, I became a contributor to the
‘Rookery Magazine ;’ and thus it was that I was
induced to write the account of my life and adventures
which J have just been able to give you.

If anything which I have said should prove bene-
ficial to young and inexperienced rooks, just about to
enter a life, of the sorrows and vicissitudes of which
they may gather some knowledge by my experience,
I shall be amply rewarded for the trouble which I
have taken; and I can only conclude by saying that
I hope they will be of opinion that in the course of
my passage through life I have done nothing to
deteriorate from the position which I occupy as a
rook of good family and position, nothing which could
lower the dignity of rookdom; above all, nothing
which might be deemed unworthy of the friend of
Glossy-back !