Front matter

Beyond Rope

and Fence

DAVID GREW

Boni and Liveright

Publishers ~ New York

Copyright, 1922, by

Boni and Liveright, Inc.

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PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

To you, dear old Dora, who inspired this book, I dedicate it. I regret most poignantly that life has ordained that you may never know, despite my caresses and my quart measures filled to overflowing with oats, how deeply I have sympathised with you in those moments when you stood motionless before me and I could see by the strange, sad light in your eyes that you were dreaming of long departed, happy years of freedom on the plains.

D. G.