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OLD

HUMPHREY'S

OBSERVATIONS..

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BY THE AUTHOR OF OLD HUMPHREY'S ADDRESSES," THOUGHTS
FOR THE THOUGHTFUL", AND WALKS ABOUT LONDON."

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ROBERT CARTER, 58 CANAL STREET:

PITTSBURG :-THOMAS CARTER.

1844.

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INTRODUCTION.

WHEN a work is acceptable, an extended preface is unnecessary; and when a book is a bad one, a lengthy introduction will not make it better.

I want you, reader, to accept my Observations as the remarks of a friendly old man, who has some affection in his heart for every human being under the canopy of the skies.

While perusing the following pages, they may possibly remind you, that age has its infirmities: and that among them may be reckoned the disposition to talk faster, and to dwell longer, on past occurrences than is agreeable to some hearers; but when you put my errors into one scale, forget not to put my friendly intentions into the other.

You may have observed, for I have observed it my. self, a proneness in age to suppose that wisdom and grey hairs, almost of necessity, go together. A consciousness of my own want of knowledge convinces me this is an error. Old Humphrey is "feelingly per

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