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THE ANCIENT ALLAN
By H. Rider Haggard
First Published 1920.

THE ANCIENT ALLAN
BY
H. RIDER HAGGARD


THE ANCIENT ALLAN

CHAPTER I
AN OLD FRIEND
Now I, Allan Quatermain, come to the weirdest (with one or two
exceptions perhaps) of all the experiences which it has amused me to
employ my idle hours in recording here in a strange land, for after
all England is strange to me. I grow elderly. I have, as I suppose,
passed the period of enterprise and adventure and I should be well
satisfied with the lot that Fate has given to my unworthy self.
To begin with, I am still alive and in health when by all the rules I
should have been dead many times over. I suppose I ought to be
thankful for that but, before expressing an opinion on the point, I
should have to be quite sure whether it is better to be alive or dead.
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