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pointed to twenty-five minutes past four, and it 

 struck seven, he knew it was just one o'clock. So 

 with this work, it matters little how the hands point 

 or how it strikes, if you only understand that it al- 

 ways strikes for soiling. 



I hope this work will prove a handbook and guide 

 to soiling. I have dwelt quite at length upon sub- 

 jects leading up to the work, that the fundamental 

 principles of the system and its advantages may be 

 firmly established. This I hold to be more essential 

 than the methods of soiling themselves, because if 

 the reader has a foundation that is safe and to which 

 he can always return, although the conditions under 

 which he may find himself may differ materially 

 from my own, he will be able to cut a new line for 

 himself. 



This work is, so far as the details are concerned, 

 but a row of blazed trees through the forest. My 

 effort has been, therefore, more to present the prin- 

 ciples and advantages of the soiling system so they 

 shall be clear, unmistakable, and undeniable, and if 

 I shall be so fortunate as to accomplish this in the 

 following pages and impart to my reader the will, 

 my purpose shall have been accomplished, and his 

 own good judgment may be depended upon to find 

 the way. In that case he may make mistakes and 

 meet with disappointments. He may stumble and 

 even fall, but in getting up he will always be getting 

 on in the right direction. 



Many have started soiling, but in a half-hearted 

 way, and have given it up on account of some little 



