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THE BIGLOW PAPERS.

(First Series.)

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HOMER WILBUR, A.M.,

PASTOR OF THE FIRST CHURCH IN JAALAM, AND (PROSPECTIVE) MEMBER
OF MANY LITERARY, LEARNED, AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES,

(for which see page 18).

The ploughman's whistle, or the trivial flute,
Finds more respect than great Apollo's lute.

Quarles's Emblems, B. ii. F. 8.

Margaritas, munde porcine, calcâsti: en, siliquas accipe.

Jac, Car, Fil. ad Pub. Leg. § 1.

LONDON:

S. O. BEETON, 248, STRAND, W.C.

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FROM

THE PUBLISHER TO THE PUBLIC.

[In reference to certain Advertisements and Notices that have appeared in the newspapers concerning some assumed copyright in "Artemus Ward-His Book."]

THIS reprint of the American volume is published without the permission or sanction of the Author. If it be urged that, in thus acting, we are raising "the black flag" and turning pirate, wo answer this:-So long as America refuses to grant copyright to English authors, and reproduces, wholesale, English writings and engravings, without so much as "By your leave, gentlemen," it cannot be expected that we who suffer these depredations, and against whom such rights of search and seizure are enforced, should not, now and then, in our turn, bring to, and bring out, and board, some neat little craft we have descried in the offing.

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