he waterside and bed of tall dark bullrushes
murmuring in the wind.

These ancient memories put it in my mind to write
a book which, I imagined, would have suited my peculiar
taste of that early period, the impossible story
to be founded on my own childish impressions and adventures,
with a few dreams and fancies thrown in and
two or three native legends and myths, such as the one
of the Lady of the Hills, the incarnate spirit of the
rocky Sierras on the great plains, about which I heard
from my gaucho comrades when on the spot--the
strange woman seldom viewed by human eyes who is
jealous of man's presence and is able to create sudden
violent tempests to frighten them from her sacred
haunts.

That's the story of my story, and to the question in
your publisher's practical mind, I'm sorry to have to
say I don't know. I have no way of finding out, since
children are not accustomed to write to authors to tell
them what they think of their books. And after all
these excuses it just occurs to me that children do not
read forewords and introductions; they have to be addressed
to adults who do not read children's books, so
that in any case it would be thrown away. Still if a
foreword you must have, and from me, I think you will
have to get it out of this letter.

I remain,

Yours cordially,
W. H. HUDSON.

November 14,1917.

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