“It requires a great many shovelfuls of earth to buy truth”
—_Swiss Proverb_
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THE ALICE HARRIMAN COMPANY
Copyrighted 1897
By FRONA EUNICE WAIT
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Revised and Re-copyrighted 1913
By FRONA EUNICE WAIT COLBURN
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THIS VOLUME
IS DEDICATED TO THE
WHITE KNIGHTS
OF ALL LANDS AND OF ALL THE AGES
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
MY FATHER
JAMES LAFAYETTE SMITH
—_Frona Eunice Wait Colburn_