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Excerpt from Master Humphrey's Clock, Vol. 3 of 3
IF the object an author has had, in writing a book, cannot be discovered from its perusal, the probability is that it is either very deep, or very shallow. Hoping that mine may lie some where between these two extremes, I shall say very little about it, and that, only in reference to one point.
No account of the Gordon Riots, having been to my knowledge introduced into any Work of Fiction, and the subject presenting very extraordinary and remarkable features, I was led to project this Tale.
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