Part 16 (1/1)

After careful consideration, I have coallswhich I have been a public servant; I would have to walk too delicately [I have sincein the public service lies in the circumstance that it is iained therein, without e reserve

But the days of h; when they arrive, and the collar drops, I shall have s, forsix-and-thirty years has been an interesting one Most of it has been spent in places as far as possible frons

My still unrecorded experiences include, inter alia, war, hunting, the ads under special coh which the boundary common to British and Ger of all, aisolated and therefore stagnant towns and hamlets

I intend to retire soon with a typewriting machine and some beehives, to a little farm I have acquired in a sleepy locality on the south coast There I hope to be spared for some few years to develop the economic products of the honey-bee, to meditate on the Universal Postulate, and to watch, fro the difficult fields of Experience May their task be easier than mine has been!

Having thus taken the public into my confidence, I will say

AU REVOIR

L'ENVOI

As a pack of wolves is the hungry Past; It hunts Man laden with hopes and fears; Its bay swells loud with the hasting years, Till the red fangs sink in his flank at last

The bay grows louder, the flaht sinks, black; Swerve and double still o'er your track The pitiless, questing nostrils lean

Mark, O brothers, before I fall, I fling this sheaf of script to your care; Take and read it; I fain would share My scanty gatherings with you all

With all with the hunted, whose eyes searchclue; With those still tranc'd, where the skies bedew The half-op'd blossoms that round them shi+ne

Take leaned with toil Fro-sped day; In a clirain may sprout from a kindly soil