Printed and Bound by
Robert Smith Printing Co.
Lansing, Mich., U.S.A.
“A friend in need is a friend indeed.” Oh! how true; touch a man’s
pocket and you instantly touch his heart, which seems to be at the
other end of the nerve. Like the elevator boy, I have had many “ups
and downs,” but unlike him, I feel that my “downs” have been twice or
thrice to every “up.”
Acquaintances I have by the score, friends but two, therefore am at
least a hundred per cent better off than most of mankind. These two
friends have had their faith tried many and many a time, yet were
always ready to respond.
Many the hour, both day and night, have I thought of them; many the
resolution have I formed, but my good intentions availed them not.
’Tis said that Hades is paved with good intentions, but they are of
no commercial value and repay no material loans. Some day “when my
ship comes in”—if it be laden with other than air castles,—I may have
something other than good intentions to repay my true friends, Frank H.
Doolittle, of Lansing, Mich., and Col. Le Gage Pratt, of East Orange,
N. J. To them, with all my heart, is this book dedicated.
[Illustration:
Santanelli
]
(J. H. Loryea.)
Lansing, Michigan,
January, 1902.