All my life, from boyhood up, I have
had the habit of reading a certain set of anecdotes, written in the quaint vein
of The World's ingenious Fabulist, for the lesson they taught me and the
pleasure they gave me. They lay always convenient to my hand, and whenever I
thought meanly of my kind I turned to them, and they banished that sentiment;
whenever I felt myself to be selfish, sordid, and ignoble I turned to them, and
they told me what to do to win back my self-respect. Many times I wished that
the charming anecdotes had not stopped with their happy climaxes, but had
continued the pleasing history of the several benefactors and beneficiaries.
This wish rose in my breast so persistently that at last I determined to
satisfy it by seeking out the sequels of those anecdotes myself. So I set about
it, and after great labor and tedious research accomplished my task. I will lay
the result before you, giving you each anecdote in its turn, and following it
with its sequel as I gathered it through my investigations.
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