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_Note_


_The friendly eyes that read these pages, knowing the pathetic fails
relating to their publication, will not be content without a word to
tell to other readers the story that will cause one and all to look on
the little book in the same sympathetic mood._

_The trips among the scenes of the storied past, here recorded, were
taken not so much in search of health as in search of diversion from
t