PKEFACE. 



I have scattered through this volume a mass of matter which has never been 



in print before, (such as " Learned Fables for Good Old Boys and Girls," 



the "Jumping Frog restored to the English tongue after martyrdom in the 



French," the " Membranous Croup " sketch, and many others which I need not 



specify) : not doing this in order to make an advertisement of it, but because 



these things seemed instructive. 



Maek Twaih. 

 Ha£tfobd, 1875. 



