Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you graved for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.
DEDICATION
We dedicate this book to the memory of
Robert Louis Stevenson, gentleman, traveller, poet,
conservative (after a brief experiment with socialism),
and master story-teller, whose story lines, characterization
and dialogue have survived, in our view unsurpassed,
for nearly a century-and-a-half so far,
and have a long way to go. An' ye may lay to that!
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Thanks are due to Mrs. Alexandra Colebatch for much editorial help and to Larry Niven for his encouragement.
AUTHOR’S NOTE
Previous adventures of Rarrgh,
The Judge, Dimity Carmody, Vaemar-Riit and certain
other characters are to be found in earlier volumes of
The Man-Kzin Wars, especially Vols. IX, X, XI and XII.