Introduction
_ MY LIFE:
Or
The Adventures of Geo. Thompson.
Being the Auto-Biography of an Author.
Written by Himself.
Why rove in Fiction‘s shadowy land,
And seek for treasures there,
When Truth‘s domain, so near at hand,
Is filled with things most rare--
When every day brings something new,
Some great, stupendous change,
Something exciting, wild and true,
Most wonderful and strange!
[ORIGINAL.]
INTRODUCTION
In which the author defineth his position.
It having become the fashion of distinguished novelists to write their own lives--or, in other words, to blow their own trumpets,--the author of these pages is induced, at the solicitation of numerous friends, whose bumps of inquisitiveness are strongly developed, to present his auto-biography to the public--in so doing which, he but follows the example of Alexandre Dumas, the brilliant French novelist, and of the world-renowned Dickens, both of whom are

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