"248 The fogy days and now. 



jum]» on the printer, for he was paid for that part of the 

 work; but if you find any whole-cloth lies in the book, then 

 you may put the blame on me. 



To the large number of friends who have subscribed so 

 promptly for the book, and to whom I have sold at least half 

 of the one thousand copies before they come from the press, 

 (and I consider this the more remarkable from the fact that 

 the author is entirely without literary reputation,) and for the 

 esteem and kindness of all these friends, I cannot find words 

 adequate to express to them my feelings of gratitude. I only 

 feel mortification at my limited capacity to afford them some- 

 thing more worthy of their attention, yet I feel sure that if I 

 have failed to enlighten them, I have succeeded in furnishing 

 them with a dollar's worth of fun. 



There are other matters I would like to talk about in this, 

 ray conclusion, but if I make the book any bigger my printers 

 win not allow me to sell it for a dollar; so, with my best 

 wishes to every reader, 1 bid each one adieu, with the request 

 that he be good to himself and to his neighbor, love the Lord, 

 and so spin out my last word, as I shall the last moment of my 

 unprofitable life, to an e-n-d. 



