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kepi my face toward t/tat atl the time. It rises in tinguished writer who would, I think, be willing- it>
the east, you know ; and 1 started at sunrise.” undertake the task of writing them out. And 1 am
John Henry Jack laughed so heartily at tills acquainted will) otie or two artists even more dis­
that he had to stop chopping and lay down his tinguished., who would, 1 have no doubt, consent to
axe. illustrate the work. The plan is certainly worth
" H a ! H a! H a t— H o ! H o ! H o !" cried he. thinking about.”
" Sa you think you have boon round the world, do These last words were spoken as much to himself
you ? " as to Milliades. And. as for the plan itsielf, John
,f Yes,” said MUtiades, " I do think so," Henry Jack did think of it very seriously, for several
And he ccrtainly did think 30; and nobody to days. And the result of his cogitations is the follow­
this day, has ever been able to make him think ing pages wherein, between himself and his friend
differently, the distinguished writer, and his other Friends, the
Miltiades showed his brother the record of the even-more distinguished artists, many of the strange
day's expedition as he had set it down in ihe Jour­ adventures of Miliiades lJeterkin ( as also of a cer­
nal. John Henry Jack, after looking 5t over, tain nice cousin of his, Little Miss Muslin, of Quin-
laughed louder fhan ever, tillion Square) have been recounted and preserved
“ I declare I ” said he, “ you certainly art destined to history. And if any farther introduction to the
to become a great man. You have already had .mi work than this is needed, it only remains to be said
many wonderful adventures in your life ihai they that everything hereinafter recorded is at least a*
would fill a good-sined book. [ know a certain dis­ true and reiiable as anything already related.