Ebook Gazpacho or Summer Months in Spain

If Mr. Ford should chance to dip into it, he may find that some of the ingredients have been filched from his pantry, and, possibly, spoilt in the cooking. When one takes as a companion an author so racy and vigorous, one cannot but appropriate and 'assimilate' his thoughts, and afterwards, unconsciously, reproduce some of them as original. Once for all, I beg his pardon for any unwitting plagiarisms. I shall be more than content if he relishes the metaphorical Gazpacho half as much as he is said to relish the reality.

My readers may possibly be offended by the frequent recurrence of 'I,' 'I, 'I.' In a record of personal experiences, - in fact, a passage of autobiography, - it is hard to see how this could have been avoided, since the gods and Lindley Murray have not provided us with any less objectionable form for the nominative singular of the first personal pronoun.

Lastly, I have to apologize for writing a book at all.