BY
EDEN PHILLPOTTS.
LONDON:
JAMES HOGG AND SONS,
7 LOVELL'S COURT, PATERNOSTER ROW.
1888.
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Richard Clay & Sons,
BREAD STREET HILL, LONDON;
Bungay, Suffolk.
INTRODUCTION.
The following story was told me by that meek but estimable little man who forms the central figure in it. I have made him relate the strange vicissitudes of his life in the first person, and, by doing so, preserve, I venture to believe, some quaintness of thought and expression that is characteristic of him.