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                           Transcriber Notes

 Obvious typos and punctuation errors corrected. Inconsistencies in
   spelling and hyphenation left as in original.

 In the original Table of Contents, the Humorous and Birthday Verses
   chapters were listed with the correct page number, but out of order.
   They have been put in the correct order.

 The book advertisement at the end uses a right pointing hand character.
   If the device font does not support this character, ☞, it may not
   appear correctly.

 Use of small capitals at the beginning of verses made consistent.

 Small capitals have been converted to ALL CAPS.

 Italic text is represented by underscores surrounding the _italic
   text_.

 Chapter headings in the original have a fancy font and decorative
   characters. The decorative touches have been preserved in the text.

 A decorative bar at the end of the Dedication Verses chapter is noted
   in the text as [Decorative bar].

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                                  THE
                             ALBUM WRITER’S
                                FRIEND.

                          COMPRISING MORE THAN

                   THREE HUNDRED CHOICE SELECTIONS OF
                           POETRY AND PROSE,

         SUITABLE FOR WRITING IN AUTOGRAPH ALBUMS, VALENTINES,
                BIRTHDAY, CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR CARDS.

                         ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

               Our lives are albums, written through
               With good or ill, with false or true,
         And as the blessed angels turn the pages of our years,
         God grant that they may read the good with smiles,
               And blot the ill with