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READER! _walk up at once (it will soon be too late), and buy
at a perfectly ruinous rate._
A FABLE FOR CRITICS;
OR, BETTER--
_I like, as a thing that the reader's first fancy may strike,
an old fashioned title-page,
such as presents a tabular view of the volumes contents_,--
A GLANCE AT A FEW OF OUR LITERARY PROGENIES
(Mrs. Malaprop's Word)
FROM THE TUB OF DIOGENES;
A VOCAL AND MUSICAL MEDLEY,
THAT IS,
A SERIES OF JOKES
BY A WONDERFUL QUIZ

_Who accompanies himself with a rub-a-dub-dub, full of spirit and grace,
on the top of the tub._
SET FORTH IN
_October, the 21st day, in the year '48._
G.P. PUTNAM, BROADWAY.

It being the commonest mode of procedure, I premise a few candid remarks
TO THE READER:--
This trifle, begun to please only myself and my own private fancy, was
laid on the shelf. But some friends, who had seen it, induced me, by
dint of saying they liked it, to put it in print. That is, having come
to that very conclusion, I asked their advice when 'twould make no
confusion.


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