TE,' (high authority), in a long review of this
work says: '_Daisy's Necklace is the King of all Novels_.'

'The Blundertown Journal' (also high authority) remarks:

'_This Book is an emanation from the culminating mind of glorious
genius!_'

'_Nothing like it has been produced in this century!_'

'_It has all the fine elements of Dickens' Novels, without any of
their numerous defects!_'

Our first edition (20,000 copies) is exhausted, and we beg our friends
to have patience for a few days.

WANTED, 4,000 Agents to sell the above work!!

PRINTEM & SELLEM,
_Publishers_."

"Four thousand agents!" quoth Barry, looking over my shoulder; "I rather
think it would take _forty_ thousand to sell an edition of 'DAISY!'"

I laughed at my irate friend, and, igniting a fresh regalia, crossed my
feet on the mantel-piece, and remarked, composedly,

"Now for the Critics!"

FINIS.

ERRATUM.

The Greek of my book-making genius, Ralph ---- Esq., seems decidedly rusty.
He has evidently given his lexicon an icy shoulder. Will the intellectual
and erudite reader substitute _kyrie eleyson_ for _kyrie elyson_ on page
131?

FOOTNOTES:

[A] Mr. Barescythe, with his characteristic word-catching spirit, wishes to
know if grapes and cherries are ripe at one and the same time in
New-England.

[B] Barescythe says, that the wrong verb used in this paragraph is what
editors call "a typographical error."

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| Transcriber's Note. |
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| Italics have been indicated in this text version by underscores |
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| The following changes have been carried out:-- |
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| Page 22 comma changed to period. |
| 'gently, gently. Sleep,' |
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| Page 60. 'distroted' to 'distorted' |
| 'highly polished, distorted knocker'