ILLUSTRATED
BY M. WOOLF
NEW YORK:
ORANGE JUDD COMPANY,
245 BROADWAY.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1878, by the
ORANGE JUDD COMPANY,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
TO MARION, MY WIFE.
I have long been curious to know whether or not I could write a prettygood story, and now that the publishers are about to send the usualpress copies of this book to the critics I am in a fair way to have mycuriosity on that point satisfied.