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With the close of my school-days at Rivermouth this modest chronicle ends.
The new life upon which I entered, the new friends and foes I encountered on the road, and what I did and what I did not, are matters that do not come within the scope of these pages. But before I write Finis to the record as it stands, before I leave it -- feeling as if I were once more going away from my boyhood -- I have a word or two to say concerning a few of the personages who have figured in the story, if you will allow me to call Gypsy a personage.