At Close Range

AT CLOSE RANGE
PUBLISHED BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

You're 'it.' I'll git the trunk at Kalamazoo.
F. HOPKINSON SMITH
ILLUSTRATED
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
NEW YORK::::::::::::::::::1905
Copyright, 1905, by CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS —— Published, March, 1905
TROW DIRECTORY PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY NEW YORK
On my writing-table lies a magnifying-glass the size of an old watch crystal, which helps me to understand the mechanism of many interesting things. With it I decipher at close range such finger-work as the cutting of intaglios, the brush-marks on miniatures, or perhaps the intricate fusings of metals in the sword-guard of a Samurai.