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Title: A Tramp's Wallet
stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France

Author: William Duthie

Release Date: March 13, 2009 [eBook #28320]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

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A
TRAMP'S WALLET;

STORED BY
AN ENGLISH GOLDSMITH
DURING HIS
Wanderings in Germany and France.

BY
WILLIAM DUTHIE.

DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO CHARLES DICKENS, ESQ.

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LONDON:
DARTON AND CO., 58, HOLBORN HILL.
MDCCCLVIII.

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[_The right of Translation is reserved by the Author_.]

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TO

CHARLES DICKENS, ESQ.,
This Volume
IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED,
IN GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF HIS SYMPATHY AND
ENCOURAGEMENT DURING
THE PUBLICATION OF THE GREATER PORTION OF ITS CONTENTS;
AND AS A SLIGHT TRIBUTE OF ADMIRATION
FOR HIS UNWEARYING LABOURS AS A PUBLIC WRITER,
TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE WHOLE PEOPLE,
BY HIS SINCERE ADMIRER,

THE AUTHOR.

PREFACE.

During a stay of three years and a half in Germany and France, sometimes
at work, sometimes tramping through the country, the Author collected a
number of facts and stray notes, which he has endeavoured in these pages
to present to the public in a readable shape.

Of the twenty-eight chapters contained