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                                "BROKE"

                       _THE MAN WITHOUT THE DIME_

  [Illustration: _As Himself_]

  [Illustration: "_Broke_" _THE AUTHOR_]




                                "BROKE"

                       _THE MAN WITHOUT THE DIME_

                                   BY
                             EDWIN A. BROWN

                      ILLUSTRATED FROM PHOTOGRAPHS

                             [Illustration]

                                CHICAGO
                        BROWNE & HOWELL COMPANY
                                  1913


                            COPYRIGHT, 1913
                       BY BROWNE & HOWELL COMPANY

                         _Copyright in England_
                         _All rights reserved_

                       PUBLISHED, NOVEMBER, 1913


                         THE. PLIMPTON. PRESS
                         NORWOOD. MASS. U.S.A


                                   TO

                      THAT VAST ARMY, WHO, WITHOUT
                     ARMS OF BURNISHED STEEL, FIGHT
                     WITH BARE HANDS FOR EXISTENCE

                         THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED




                    _What in me is dark
            Illumine, what is low raise and support;.
            That to the height of this argument
            I may assert eternal Providence
            And justify the ways of God to