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Title: Comic History of the United States

Author: Bill Nye

Illustrator: F. Opper

Release Date: May 13, 2007 [EBook #21427]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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Bill Nye's

HISTORY
OF THE
UNITED
STATES

ILLUSTRATED BY

F. Opper

THOMPSON & THOMAS,
CHICAGO.

COPYRIGHT, 1894,

BY

J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY.

* * * * *

[Illustration]

PREFACE

Facts in a nude state are not liable criminally, any more than bright
and beautiful children commit a felony by being born thus; but it is the
solemn duty of those having these children in charge to put appropriate,
healthful, and even attractive apparel upon them at the earliest
possible moment.

It is thus with facts. They are the frame-work of history, not the
drapery. They are like the cold, hard, dishevelled, damp, and
uncomfortable body under the knife of the demonstrator, not the bright
and bounding boy, clothed in graceful garments and filled to every
tingling capillary with a soul.

We, each of us, the artist and the author, respect facts. We have never,
either of us, said an unkind word regarding facts. But we believe that
they should not be placed before the public exactly as they were born.
We want to see them embellished and beautified. That is why this history
is written.

Certain facts have come into the possession of the artist and author of
this book regarding the history of the Republic down to the present day.
We find, upon looking over the records and documents on file in the
various archives of state and nation, that they are absolutely beyond
question, and it is our object to give these truthfully. These rough and
untidy, but impregnable truths, dressed in the sweet persuasive language
of the author, and fluted, embossed, embroidered, and embellished by the
skilful hand of the artist, are now before you.

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