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When Mr. Cliilds consented, witb unfeigned reluctance, to tell the story of his tranquil life, he was not at all persuaded of the propriety of sitting down before the public and chatting familiarly of himself and his friends. He had been asked to do this many times before, but neither the persistent importunity of enterprising publishers, nor, of course, the tender of gold, could move him. Finally the temptation to do a friendly act overcame his scruples, and the readers of Lippincotfs Magazine were given the series of four entertaining papers embodied in the present volume. However stubborn the resistance of Mr. Childs may have been, and whatever doubts he may have entertained as to the wisdom of the Published in the issues of June, July, A ugust, and September, 1889.
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