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The Knickerbocker Press

COPYRIGHT BY

J. R. ELLIOTT

1890

The knickerbocker Press, New York
Electrotyped and Printed by

G. P. Putnam's Sons

THE AUTHOR

GRATEFULLY DEDICATES THIS

VOLUME TO

HIS WIFE

WHOSE SYMPATHIES, SENTIMENTS, AND COUNSELS HAVE BEEN AN INVALUABLE AID AND INCENTIVE IN THE

WORK OF ITS PREPARATION