INTRODUCTION.
   BY 0. P. FITZGERALD, D.D., EDITOR CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE.


   THIs is a fascinating book. Its charm is in its natural-
ness. The author talks right out of his heart, and so gets
right into the heart of the reader. He keeps nothing back.
You feel as you read these pages that there is no suppres-
sion on the one hand nor exaggeration on the other. There
is no human life, thus told, that does not possess a thrilling
interest and a tender pathos. The readers of this book,
old and young, will find themselves, before they know it,
melted to tears or tickled with laughter. The human
nature that is in it will make every reader feel akin to the
wise, frank, quaint, genial soul that breathes through it.
  This is a valuable book. It is such a book as can be
placed in the hands of every boy in the land with unalloyed
pleasure. Its lessons are good, and they are given in a
way that will make them stick. The delightful narrative
is not interrupted by tedious moralizing, but the lessons
are there. I feel assured that by it many young persons
will be warned against wrong courses and strengthened in
their love for truth and right living. The book is thor-
oughly wholesome: there is in it no doubtful morality, no
taint of the sensationalism that defiles so large a part of
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