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BREFACE (Author's Preface)
br> Der gusdimers in a barper shop haf noding else to done vile dem peen getting shafed, and so dem dalk der bote of a barper's ears off.
br> Some barpers vait undil dem shafing arount a gusdimer's chin, or vill vent so far as to sdufffull a gusdimer's mout mit soap yet, so dem can demsellufs get der edge of a vord sitevays in.
br> I dink I done more pedher as dem vays by brinding a few of der pesd dings I haf got myselluf off of for bresendation to my gusdimers, at der shmall expenses of dwendy-fife cent.
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br> The majority of these interviews with the philosophical German barber and his lively assistant have appeared in the New York "Sun," mainly in its Sunday editions, during the past eight months; a few of the shorter ones appear here for the first time. The first one ever published was that obtained on the hottest day in 1882, and headed in this collection, "Ninety-nine in the Shade." That formed a portion of a longer article. The one that really led the series was that now entitled, "The Secret of Happy Wedded Life."
br> - J. E. R.
