Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Tan Pile Jim, or a Yankee Waif Among the Bluenoses
The above cipher is placed there because a preface generally counts for nothing in the reading of a book. Yet by putting it there I hope to detain the reader long enough upon the threshold of this odd building to whisper in his ear two things before he begins to make the acquaintance of the folks who live within.
And first, to be generous; if you are a boy, the book is for you; and if you are a girl, walk ih, and welcome. And if you are a man. I shall be glad of your company; and if you are a woman, why, that will be perfectly splendid!
And last, to be just, as well as generous, I must say that I had to describe the things inclosed within just as I found them. I confess at the start that there are some things which are so odd they may shock; but as I had nothing to do with the creation of the people, nor with the ordering of their affairs, I could only follow behind them and pick up what they had left upon the wayside of life.
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