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The Project Gutenberg eBook, The True Legend of St. Dunstan and the Devil, by Edward G. Flight, Illustrated by George Cruikshank This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The True Legend of St. Dunstan and the Devil Author: Edward G. Flight Release Date: November 8, 2004 [eBook #13978] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TRUE LEGEND OF ST. DUNSTAN AND THE DEVIL*** E-text prepared by Clare Boothby, David Garcia, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 13978-h.htm or 13978-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/3/9/7/13978/13978-h/13978-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/3/9/7/13978/13978-h.zip) THE TRUE LEGEND OF ST. DUNSTAN AND THE DEVIL Showing How the Horse-Shoe Came to Be a Charm against Witchcraft by EDWARD G. FLIGHT. With Illustrations by George Cruikshank Engraved by John Thompson Third Edition 1871 [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. The success of the first edition of this little work, compels its author to say a few words on the issue of a second. "Expressive silence" would now be in him the excessive impudence of not acknowledging, as he respectfully does acknowledge, that success to be greatly ascribable to the eminent artists who have drawn and engraved the illustrations. "A man's worst wish for his enemy is that he might write a book," is a generally-received notion, of whose accuracy it is hoped there is no impertinence in suggesting a doubt. To reflect on having contributed, however slightly, to the innocent amusement of others, without giving pain to any, is alone an enjoyment well worth writing for. But when even so unpretending a trifle as this is, can, besides, bring around its obscure author fresh and valuable friendships, the hackneyed exclamation would appear more intelligible if rendered thus: "Oh, that my _friend_ would write a book!" In former days, possibly, things may have been very diff
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