Front matter

Robinson Crusoe’s Money.

By David A. Wells.

New York:

Harper & Brothers, Publishers,

Franklin Square.

1876.

“I smiled at myself at the sight of all this money. ‘Oh, drug,’ said I, aloud, ‘what art thou good for? Thou art not worth to me, no, not the taking off the ground. One of these knives is worth all this heap.’”—Page 9.

Cobden Club Edition.

Robinson Crusoe’s Money;

Or, the Remarkable Financial Fortunes and Misfortunes of a Remote Island Community.

By

David A. Wells

,

Late U. S. Special Commissioner of Revenue.

With Illustrations by Thomas Nast.

“It requires a great deal of philosophy to observe once what may be seen every day.”—Rousseau.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, Franklin Square. 1876.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1876, by Harper & Brothers, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.