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hardcopy for smudged dialect on p 271.}
THE MOUNTAINS
BY
STEWART EDWARD WHITE
AUTHOR OF
"THE BLAZED TRAIL," "SILENT PLACES,"
"THE FOREST," ETC.
PREFACE
The author has followed a true sequence of events
practically in all particulars save in respect to the
character of the Tenderfoot. He is in one sense fictitious;
in another sense real. He is real in that he is the
apotheosis of many tenderfeet, and that everything he does
in this narrative he has done at one time or another in the
author's experience. He is fictitious in the sense that he
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