PART I - INTRODUCTORY ROMANCE PROM THE PEN OF WILLIAM TINKLING,ESQ. (Aged eight.)
_ THIS beginning-part is not made out of anybody‘s head, you know.
It‘s real. You must believe this beginning-part more than what
comes after, else you won‘t understand how what comes after came to
be written. You must believe it all； but you must believe this
most, please. I am the editor of it. Bob Redforth (he‘s my
cousin, and shaking the table on purpose) wanted to be the editor
of it； but I said he shouldn‘t because he couldn‘t. HE has no idea
of being an editor.
Nettie Ashford is my bride. We were married in the right-hand
closet in the corner of the dancing-school, where first we met,
with a ring (a green one) from Wilkingwater‘s toy-shop. I owed for
it out of my pocket-money. When the rapturous ceremony was over,
we all four went up the lane and let off a cannon (brought loaded
in Bob Redforth‘s waistcoat-pocket) to announce our nuptials. It
flew right up when it went

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