Colonel Butler's Wolf

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To Aldous Huxley and Chatto & Windus for lines, used on page 52, from "To Lesbia" published in Collected Poems.

To A. E. Houseman and the Society of Authors for lines, used on page 165, from "Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries".

To Michael Alexander and penguin Books for lines, used on page 181, published in The Earliest English Poems.

COLONEL BUTLER'S WOLF

by ANTHONY PRICE

The Master's Lodging,

The King's College,

Oxford.

My dear Freisler,

I know you will remember our conversation in the Fellows' Garden during last summer's Rhodes House conference.

At that time you ridiculed my fears as the nightmares of a suspicious old man. Nevertheless you agreed to pass on my message to those whose duty it is to investigate nightmares, and I have reason to believe that they did not reject it.

In that belief I have held my hand (if not my tongue) during these last months. But now something has occurred which makes further action imperative.

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