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These random rhymes were written solely for my own diversion, and with no thought of making a book. But at the earnest solicitations of those who profess to have been edified and amused by my fragmentary verses, I have collected them into this little volume, hoping that the dear friends who in the hour of need have proven friends "in deed," will accept, it in the same spirit of affectionate good-will with which it is hereby dedicated to them BY THE AUTHOR.