To AND BY ONE, WHO, ALTHOUGH A STEP-MOTHER, IS STILL AS AFFECTIONATE AND FRIENDLY TO ’EM AS CAN BE. The above is the dedication I had lotted on; had wrote all out and calculated to have; pleasing, very, to Josiah, to the children, and to myself. But come to think it over, I changed my mind. I thought: they have friends, and eloquent tongues of their own, and happiness; are well off, and haint sufferin’ for dedications, or any of the other comforts and necessaries of life. And so, the above is hereby null and void; and this is what I now solemnly declare to be my last lawful will and dedication of this book:— TO (ANY KIND OF BONDS,) TO TO Those whose Sad Eyes Look Through Tears for the Dawning of a Brighter, Clearer Day, Those whose Sad Eyes Look Through Tears for the Dawning of a Brighter, Clearer Day By Their Sincere Friend and Well-Wisher, By Their Sincere Friend and Well-Wisher v MY REASONS TO THE KIND AND ALMOST GENTLE READER WHY I DON’T HAVE NO PREFACE TO THIS BOOK. WHY My companion, Josiah, knew that my book was all finished and completed, and so one lovely day about half past four, P. M. in the afternoon, when he see me walk with a firm and even step up to the mantletry piece and take down my bottle of ink and my steel mounted pen, he says to me: P. M. “What are you goin’ to writin’ on now, Samantha?”
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