Bruno

BRUNO

The Old City Gates, St. Augustine.— Frontispiece.
New Edition WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY CALVERT SMITH
BOSTON LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY 1908
Copyright, 1899, 1908, By Byrd Spilman Dewey,
All rights reserved. Printers S. J. Parkhill & Co., Boston, U. S. A.
THIS LITTLE SKETCH Is dedicated TO ALL WHO HAVE EVER LOVED ONE OF THOSE FAITHFUL CREATURES OF WHOM WE, IN OUR IGNORANCE AND VANITY, ARE WONT TO SPEAK AS THE LOWER ANIMALS. B. S. D.

We do not count the first half-year of our married life, because, during that time we did not live, we boarded.
Then we found we had developed a strong appetite for housekeeping, so we began to look about us for a house.
In the small northern village where we must live, it was not possible to rent anything that suited us; so we decided to take what we could get until we could manage to build what we wanted.