Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by
GEORGE M. BAKER,
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

Geo. C. Rand & Avery,
Stereotypers and Printers,
3 Cornhill, Boston.


To
MATT. A. MATHEW, ESQ.,
PROPRIETOR OF
THE “HANDS” AND “LAUGH
WHICH HAVE SO OFTEN
GIVEN ASSURANCE OF SUCCESS.


PREFACE.