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At Good Old Siwash, by George Fitch
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Title: At Good Old Siwash
Author: George Fitch
Release Date: April 25, 2008 [EBook #25163]
Language: English
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GOOD OLD SIWASH
BY GEORGE FITCH
ILLUSTRATED
BOSTON LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY 1916
Copyright, 1910, 1911, BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
Copyright, 1911, BY LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.
All rights reserved
Printers S. J. PARKHILL & CO., BOSTON, U.S.A.
[Illustration: Twenty-five yards with four Muggledorfer men hanging on his legs FRONTISPIECE. Page 19]
AT GOOD OLD SIWASH
PREFACE
Little did I think, during the countless occasions on which I have skipped blithely over the preface of a book in order to plunge into the plot, that I should be called upon to write a preface myself some day. And little have I realized until just now the extreme importance to the author of having his preface read.
I want this preface to be read, though I have an uneasy premonition that it is going to be skipped as joyously as ever I skipped a