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PREFACE.

PREFACE.

I have scattered through this volume a mass of matter which has never been
in print before, (such as “Learned Fables for Good Old Boys and Girls,”
the “Jumping Frog restored to the English tongue after martyrdom in the
French,” the “Membranous Croup” sketch, and many others which I need not
specify): not doing this in order to make an advertisement of it, but because
these things seemed instructive.

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