IV                    The Publishers' Preface.

constant exactions of public duty delayed the completion of the work,
and the hope was denied him. The publication is now being made in
accordance with his wishes.
    Confident that the collection of stories and speeches of so notable
a man as William 0. Bradley will be widely read and appreciated, and
that it shall prove a unique, most valuable, and popular contribution to
the literature of the day, and of the days to come, we submit same to
the reading public.
                                       THE: PUBLISHERS.

    Lexington, Kentucky, November, 19i6.