“A new Preface” is, I find, promised with my story. If there are any among my readers who loved Aesop's Fables chiefly on account of the Moral appended, they will perhaps be pleased to turn backward and learn what I have to say here. This tale forms a natural sequence to a former one, which some may remember, entitled “Elsie Venner.” Like that,--it is intended for two classes of readers, of which the smaller one includes the readers of the “Morals” in Aesop and of this Preface.…
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