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That House I Bought

_A LITTLE LEAF FROM LIFE_

BY
HENRY EDWARD WARNER

[Illustration: Logo]

G. W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY
PUBLISHERS      NEW YORK


COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY
G. W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY

_That House I Bought_




DEDICATION


Why a dedication? Why a preface--a foreword? Why any comment, save the
title and the price mark?

Simplicity itself! The preface, foreword, dedication--what you may term
it--gives opportunity to apologize for the liberality with which the
author betrays his egotism, in the thickly sprinkled perpendicular
pronoun.

And yet this plain young tale of plain things could not be told in the
third person, since it is a mere setting down of real experience,
painfully truthful and laboriously pruned where imagination was tempted
to stray into fields of fiction. There