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PUBLISHER'S ADVERTISEMENT.
A considerable portion of this volume was published in successive
numbers of The Commonwealth, newspaper, of Boston.
The sudden popularity the Sketches won from the general
public, and the praise they received from literary men of
distinguished ability, are sufficient reasons, — were any needed,
—for their re-publication, thus revised and enlarged, in this
more convenient and permanent form. As, besides paying
the Author the usual copyright, the publisher has resolved to
devote at least five cents for every copy sold to the support of
orphans made fatherless or homeless by the war, no reproduction
of any part of the contents now first printed in these
pages, will be permitted in any journal. Should the sale of the
little book be large, the orphans' percentage will be doubled.
Boston, August, 1863.
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