Preft 



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READER, you have warning that these 

 explorations promise little peril and 

 adventure ; and if you are fond of steady 

 going you may complain when you are 

 checked and asked to look at things, or, 

 worse, to think or talk about them. Yet, 

 because the road is always open, you need 

 not turn into the lanes and by-ways, unless 

 you are so minded. I hope that our jaunt 

 together may be made in good humor, even 

 when you disagree with me, as you are 

 sure to do sometimes, and that the little 

 outing wherein we shall ramble as much in 

 talk as with our feet may profit us both. 

 If I shall persuade you out of your room 



