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RAB AND HIS FRIENDS
BY JOHN BROWN, M.D.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY HERMANN SIMON AND
EDMUND H. GARRETT.
PHILADELPHIA:
1890.
PREFACE.
Four years ago, my uncle, the Rev. Dr. Smith of Biggar, asked me to give
a lecture in my native village, the shrewd little capital of the Upper
Ward. I never lectured before; I have no turn for it; but Avunculus was