Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Hand-Book of Swindling
The Editor has disciplined himself to receive With becoming moderation the tremendous ex pression of national gratitude consequent on the publication of this valuable work - the pro duction of the late estimable captain barabbas whitefeather. It was discovered among many other papers accidentally left at the lodgings Of the deceased, and placed in the hands of the Editor by the executors Of the lamented and - if a novel epithet may be applied to him, - talented author.
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