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That House I Bought

A LITTLE LEAF FROM LIFE

BY
HENRY EDWARD WARNER

G. W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK

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Copyright, 1911, by
G. W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY

That House I Bought

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DEDICATION

Why a dedication? Why a preface—a foreword? Why any comment, save thetitle and the price mark?

Simplicity itself! The preface, foreword, dedication—what you may termit—gives opportunity to apologize for the liberality with which theauthor betrays his egotism, in the thickly sprinkled perpendicular pronoun.

And yet this plain young tale of plain things could not be told in thethird person, since it is a mere setting down of real experience,[Pg 4]painfully truthful and laboriously pruned where imagination was temptedto stray into fields of fiction. There is but one confession of romanticmendacity—and it shall not be made, for it might have happened! QuienSabe?

And now this little story is dedicated to all who have bought or intendto buy homes, who have lost or expect to lose them; to the bird ofpassage and to the homing, and to all who love their fellowmen—but veryespecially to you who read it.

H. E. W.

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CONTENTS