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MY LIFE:
OR
THE ADVENTURES OF GEO. THOMPSON. BEING THE AUTO-BIOGRAPHY OF AN AUTHOR. WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.
Why rove in Fiction's shadowy land, And seek for treasures there, When Truth's domain, so near at hand, Is filled with things most rare— When every day brings something new, Some great, stupendous change, Something exciting, wild and true, Most wonderful and strange!
[ORIGINAL.]
{First published 1854}
Yellow Cover of Thompson's My Life. Original size 6 x 9-1/8". Courtesy, American Antiquarian Society.