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<h1>That House I Bought</h1>
<p class="bold"><i>A LITTLE LEAF FROM LIFE</i></p>
<p class="bold space-above"><span class="smaller">BY</span><br/>HENRY EDWARD WARNER</p>
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<h2>DEDICATION</h2>
<p>Why a dedication? Why a preface—a foreword? Why any comment, save the
title and the price mark?</p>
<p>Simplicity itself! The preface, foreword, dedication—what you may term
it—gives opportunity to apologize for the liberality with which the
author betrays his egotism, in the thickly sprinkled perpendicular pronoun.</p>
<p>And yet this plain young tale of plain things could not be told in the
third person, since it is a mere setting down of real experience,
<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</SPAN></span>painfully truthful and laboriously pruned where imagination was tempted
to stray into fields of fiction. There is but one confession of romantic
mendacity—and it shall not be made, for it <i>might</i> have happened! Quien
Sabe?</p>
<p>And now this little story is dedicated to all who have bought or intend
to buy homes, who have lost or expect to lose them; to the bird of
passage and to the homing, and to all who love their fellowmen—but very
especially to you who read it.</p>
<p class="right">H. E. W.</p>
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