If, Yes, and Perhaps: Four Possibilities and Six Exaggerations, with Some Bits of Fact - Couverture souple
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Tins story originated in (lie advertisement of (lie humbug which it describes. Some fifteen or twenty years since, when gill enterprises rose to one of their climaxes., a gift of a large tim of money, I think $10,000, wan ollercd in New York to the most successful ticket-holder in home scheme, ami one of S5,o Ooto the second. It was arranged that one of these parties should be. a man and the other a woman; and the amiable suggestion was added, on the purl of the undertaker of the enterprise, that if the gentleman and lady who drew these prizes liked each other Bullieiently well when the distribution was made, they might regard the decision as a match made for them in Heaven, and take, the money us the dowry of the bride. This thoroughly practical, and, at the sum; time, thoroughly absurd euggestioii, arre ted the attention of a distinguished story-teller, a dear friend of mine, who proposed to me that we should each of us write the hi.-tory of one of the two successful parties, to be woven together by their union at the end. The plan, however, lay latent for years, the gill enterprise of course blew up, and it was not until the Bummer of 18(J i that I wrote my half of the proposed story, with the hojtcof eliciting the oilier half. My friends more important engagements however, have thus far kept Faust :i sdetailed biography from the light. I sent my half to Mr. Frank Leslie, in competition for a premium offered bv him, as is stated in the second chapter of the story. And the story found sueh favor in the eyes of the judges, that it received one of his second premiums. The first was very properly awarded toM
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Présentation de l'éditeur
This story originated in the advertisement of the humbug which it describes. Some fifteen or twenty years since, when gift enterprises rose to one of their climaxes, a gift of a large sum of money, I think $10,000, was offered in New York to the most successful ticket-holder in some scheme, and one of $5,000 to the second.
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