Preface
_ TO CHARLES CANNAN.
My Dear Cannan, It is told of a distinguished pedagogue that one day a heated stranger burst into his study, and, wringing him by the hand, cried, "Heaven bless and reward you, sir! Heaven preserve you long to educate old England‘s boyhood! I have walked many a weary, weary mile to see your face again," he continued, flourishing a scrap of paper, "and assure you that but for your discipline, obeyed by me as a boy and remembered as a man, I should never--no, never--have won the Ticket-of-Leave which you behold!"
In something of the same spirit I bring you this small volume. The child of encouragement is given to staggering its parent； and I make no doubt that as you turn the following pages, you will more than once exclaim, with the old lady in the ballad--
"O, deary me! this is none of I!"
Nevertheless, it would be strange indeed if this story bore no marks of you； for a hundred kindly instances have taught me to come with sure reliance for

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