That House I Bought: A little leaf from life

A LITTLE LEAF FROM LIFE
BY HENRY EDWARD WARNER
G. W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY PUBLISHERS NEW YORK

Copyright, 1911, by G. W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY
That House I Bought

Why a dedication? Why a preface—a foreword? Why any comment, save the title and the price mark?
Simplicity itself! The preface, foreword, dedication—what you may term it—gives opportunity to apologize for the liberality with which the author betrays his egotism, in the thickly sprinkled perpendicular pronoun.
And yet this plain young tale of plain things could not be told in the third person, since it is a mere setting down of real experience, painfully truthful and laboriously pruned where imagination was tempted to stray into fields of fiction. There is but one confession of romantic mendacity—and it shall not be made, for it might have happened! Quien Sabe?