Copyright, 1895, by Harper & Brothers.
Printed in the United States of America.
SPECIMEN JONES (Page [36])
TO
S. B. W. and O. J. W.
FROM THEIR SON
PREFACE
These eight stories are made from our Western Frontier as it was in a past as near as yesterday and almost as by-gone as the Revolution; so swiftly do we proceed. They belong to each other in a kinship of life and manners, and a little through the nearer tie of having here and there a character in common. Thus they resemble faintly the separate parts of a whole, and gain, perhaps, something of the invaluable weight of length; and they have been received by my closest friends with suspicion.