MY LIFE

From a photograph taken in 1894

MY LIFE

BY

JOSIAH FLYNT

Author of "Tramping with Tramps," "The World of Graft," Etc.

With an Introduction by Arthur Symons

ILLUSTRATED

NEW YORK

THE OUTING PUBLISHING COMPANY

MCMVIII

Copyright, 1908, by

THE OUTING PUBLISHING COMPANY

DEDICATION

I dedicate this book to all those human beings, who, like myself, havecome under the spell of that will-o'-the-wisp, Die Ferne, thedisappearing and fading Beyond, and who, like myself again, are doomedsooner or later to see the folly of their quest, Die Ferne recedingmeanwhile farther and farther away from their vision. "It is the way ofthe World," says the Philosopher. That my fellow dupes in the fruitlesschase may all become sweet-natured philosophers in the end, is myearnest wish and prayer.

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