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TO
THOSE GOOD-MANNERED AND AGREEABLE CHILDREN,

SUSIE AND CLARA CLEMENS,

THIS BOOK

IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED

BY THEIR FATHER.



The quality of mercy...
is twice bless"d;
It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes
'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown.
Merchant of Venice