Wesblock, the autobiography of an automaton

by Harry McDonald Walters

WESBLOCK
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN
AUTOMATON

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WESBLOCK
The Autobiography
of an
Automaton
By
Harry McDonald
Walters

LONDON AND TORONTO
J. M. DENT & SONS LIMITED
1914

DEDICATED
TO
MY SONS
BY BIRTH, BY ADOPTION, AND
BY RIGHTS OF AFFECTION

PREFACE

This work is in the form of a book. Outwardly a book, it is not a book in the ordinary sense. It is only an artless yarn. Wesblock is a common type, and he writes himself down as he knows himself or thinks he knows himself. His tale is not thrilling, except in so far as the understanding reader can see that he escaped being one of the great army of the unfit by a very narrow margin. Wesblock has in fact written as much for himself as for you. His story is an attempt to take stock of himself, and to discover whether life as he has experienced it is really worth while. If the book helps one poor soul to find what Wesblock found—that it is really worth while—it will have fulfilled its mission.

What he has said of persons and things only expresses his own opinions. They may not appear true to you; but they were true to him according to his light. He preaches sometimes; but not at you—at himself.

You may know more about Wesblock and his kind than he does, if so you can make a great book from this yarn by adding what you think necessary and rejecting what you know to be incorrect. Whatever impression the story of Wesblock makes upon you is the impression intended to be made.