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Copyrighted by FRANK LESLIE, 1877.
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_To FRANK LESLIE_,
Who, while other publishers were advising the writer of these sketches
to write, supplied the author with encouragement in the shape of a
publishing medium and the lucre which all literary men despise but long
for, this volume is respectfully dedicated by