Chapter 1. A Tale Of Modern War
_ CHAPTER ONE. A TALE OF MODERN WAR
REVEALS THE EXPLOSIVE NATURE OF MY EARLY CAREER.
The remarkable--I might even say amazing--personal adventures which I am about to relate occurred quite recently.
They are so full of interest to myself and to my old mother, that I hasten to write them down while yet vivid and fresh in my memory, in the hope that they may prove interesting,--to say nothing of elevating and instructive--to the English-speaking portions of the human race throughout the world.
The dear old lady to whom I have just referred--my mother--is one of the gentlest, meekest, tenderest beings of my acquaintance. Her regard for me is almost idolatrous. My feelings towards her are tinged with adoration.
From my earliest years I have been addicted to analysis.
Some of my younger readers may not perhaps know that by analysis is meant the reduction of compound things to their elements--the turning of things, as it were, inside out

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