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  NAT GOODWIN'S BOOK




  NAT GOODWIN'S
  BOOK

  BY

  NAT C. GOODWIN

  ILLUSTRATED

  [Illustration: (Publisher's colophon)]

  BOSTON

  RICHARD G. BADGER

  THE GORHAM PRESS

  TORONTO: COPP CLARK COMPANY LIMITED




  COPYRIGHT, 1914

  BY NAT C. GOODWIN AND RICHARD G. BADGER

  _All rights reserved_


  THE GORHAM PRESS, BOSTON, U.S.A.




PREFACE


In penning memoirs or autobiographing it is extremely difficult to
avoid writing impersonally, yet I shall strive to avoid it as much as
possible, not so much from a sense of duty as from a standpoint of
mercy.

I have never enjoyed reading about myself and I am firmly convinced
that there are few who have. Perhaps, if I am tempted during this
review to give myself an opinion of myself, it may be received with
favor even by those critics who have never agreed with any of my
characterizations.

I started this little work with some degree of terror. I had such a
poor background to frame my somewhat checkered career upon. I fully
realized that a man must be a very great person, or at least imagine
