Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1865, By SAMUEL G. DRAKE, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts. TO MY MORE THAN BROTHER, HARLOW ROYS, WHO AT ALL TIMES ALIKE IN PROSPERITY AND ADVERSITY HAS STOOD MY FRIEND, WHO WHEN MY STEPS SEEMED RAPIDLY DESCENDING INTO THE "DARK VALLEY" AND "THE RIVER" WITH THE "BOATMAN PALE" WERE CLOSE BEFORE ME, CHEERED ME BY HIS PRESENCE AND HELD ME BACK BY THE GRASP OF HIS STRONG HAND, WARM WITH LIFE AND LOVE, IN TOKEN OF AN AFFECTION WHICH STRONG AT FIRST, AS YEARS PASS AND WE GROW OLDER GROWS MORE INTENSE, I DEDICATE THESE VOLUMES.…
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