A Magician's Tour, Up and Down and Round About the Earth - Being the Life and Adventures of the American Nostradamus, Harry Kellar #255286

The above is intended as an ingenious means of deluding people into reading a preface, who would skip it directly if the Word Preface were printed on the top in big letters. But as a junior devil I am naturally of an antic disposition, and so may be easily imagined to be Sitting on my reader s shoulder grinning, and girding, and mopping, and mowing heartily at the success of my device.