With the Compliments of the Author, Hanford Lennox Gordon Los Angeles, California Copyright, 1910, by Hanford Lennox Gordon COPYRIGHT Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C. K VIW!! Press of Commercial Printing House Los Angeles, Cal. For years I have kept notes of such thoughts and laconic expressions as I deemed worth preserving. Out of the mass I have sifted and arranged the contents of this volume, with additions. There are not many thoughts in this book that have not been expressed by others in some form. I have aimed to prune and improve, and in many cases to make new clothes out of old cloth. I have perhaps produced a few hybrids. "Though old the thought and oft expressed, I have followed the advice of Horace— Misce stultiam consiliis brevem I have quoted often-perhaps too freely-from my Indian Legends and Other Poems. In this edition I have added many apt quotations, for which I have given credit. Los Angeles, Cal. Hanford Lennox Gordon. 294109 |