MUSHROOM TOWN

BY OLIVER ONIONS

Author of "Gray Youth," "In Accordance with the Evidence," "DebitAccount," etc., etc.

GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
NEW YORK

Publishers in America for Hodder & Stoughton

Copyright, 1914,
By George H. Doran Company

DEDICATION

In the following pages I have permitted myself to take a number ofliberties—geographical, historical, etymological, and evengeological—with a country for which I have conceived a strongaffection; I trust I have taken none with its beauty nor with itshospitality. It will be useless to search for Llanyglo on any map. It isneither in North Carnarvonshire, in Merioneth, nor in Lleyn. Of certainfeatures of existing places I have made a composite, which is the"Mushroom Town" of this book.

The kindnesses I have received in Wales during the past six years havebeen innumerable; indeed, much of my work has consisted of writing down(and not always improving) things told me by one of my hosts. For thisand other reasons I should like to render him such acknowledgment as aDedication may express. "Mushroom Town" is therefore inscribed, ingratitude and affection, to

ARTHUR ASHLEY RUCK

Hampstead, 1914

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