NEW YORK:

DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

1903




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DEDICATION


To Mark Twain

In loving tribute to his genius, and to his human sympathy, which in
Pathos and Seriousness, as well as in Mirth and Humour, have made him
kin with the whole world:--

this book is inscribed by

BESSIE and MARIE VAN VORST.