MY DERBY SWEEP 



THIS is a short story with a moral, and a 

 moral so obvious that those who read may 

 learn without the least effort. Fortune has 

 always used me despitefully, and declined to 

 bestow even a passing smile upon me ; in 

 fact, she has ever tossed her head disdain- 

 fully and passed on the other side, leaving 

 me with an aching void in my heart. The 

 treatment, however, that I have recently 

 experienced has been so desperately unkind, 

 that to ease my almost unendurable depression 

 of spirits and misery, I am resolved to take 

 a generous public into my confidence, and 

 expose the cruelty of the changeable jade, 

 feeling quite sure I may rely on its hearty 



sympathy. 



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