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 [Illustration: Doesticks and his Friends.]




 Doesticks

 What He Says

 BY

 Q. K. Philander Doesticks, P.B.

 NEW YORK:
 LIVERMORE & RUDD,
 310 BROADWAY.

 1856.




 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by
 EDWARD LIVERMORE,
 In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District
 of New York




 THIS IS NEITHER

 A HISTORY, ROMANCE, LIFE-DRAMA, BIOGRAPHY,

 AUTOBIOGRAPHY,

 NOR

 POST MORTEM EXAMINATION,

 BUT A SERIES OF

 Unpremeditated Literary Extravaganzas,

 WRITTEN WITHOUT MALICE AFORETHOUGHT

 BY THE SINGLE HERO THEREOF,

 PURELY FOR HIS OWN GLORIFICATION

 AND PRINTED BY THE PUBLISHER

 SOLELY FOR HIS OWN PROFIT.




Nothing.


In a literary point of view this book claims nothing:

This is the manufacturer's assertion.

In a literary point of view this book amounts to nothing.

This will be the reader's conclusion.

And if any skeptical person insists upon investigating the matter for
himself, he will eventually be compelled to acknowledge the verity of
this remark; and will, at the same time, bear a strong testimony to the
sagacity of the publisher, who has put his trust in nothing--_for he
will have bought the book_.

This work simply professes to be sketches of various persons, places,
and events--some of which have been published, and some hav'n't; some
are bad, and some are worse; but all have a claim to originality in
treatment, although the same things may have been better said by better
people.

