Four Canadian Highwaymen by J. E. (Joseph Edmund) Collins
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will buy from me. I am not a Fellow of the R.S.C., and if I produced
anything dreary I could not look for the solace of having that discerning association clap their hands while I read my manuscript. As to my subject being blood and thunder, as some of the _litterateurs_ will describe it, I have only to say that the author of _Hard Cash_ wrote more than a dozen short stories laid upon lines similar to mine. A young man fighting for a place in literature, and for bread and butter at the same time, need not blush at being censured for adopting a literary field in which Charles Reade spent so many years of his life. By-and-by, when I drive a gilded chariot, and can afford to wait for books with quieter titles and more dramatic worth to bring me their slow earnings, I shall be presumptuous enough to set such a star before my ambition as the masters of English fiction followed. E. C. TORONTO, 1st August, 1886. CONTENTS CHAPTER I. THE PRETTY ASTER AND MR. HAM |
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