BY
AUTHOR OF THE “BOSTON DIP AND OTHER VERSES.”
Cor. Bromfield and Washington Sts.,
BOSTON.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871,
In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
Stereotyped and Printed by Rockwell & Churchill, Boston.
My dear Friend,—
Indignation at my dedicating this book to you will beuseless, since I am at present three thousand miles out ofyour reach. Moreover, this dedication is not intended asa public monument to our friendship;—I know too muchfor that. If that were the case, we should manage toquarrel even at this distance, I am quite confident, beforethe proof-sheets had left the press. But I can dedicate itto you alone of all my college friends, because you and Iwere brought so especially into the atmosphere of the manwho inspired me to undertake it,—the man to whom, underG