Front matter

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SALMAGUNDI.

PEOPLE’S EDITION.

SALMAGUNDI; OR, THE WHIMWHAMS AND OPINIONS OF LAUNCELOT LANGSTAFF, ESQ., AND OTHERS.

WILLIAM IRVING, JAMES KIRKE PAULDING

AND

WASHINGTON IRVING.

In hoc est hoax, cum quiz et jokesez,

Et smokem, toastem, roastem folksez,

Fee, faw, fum. Psalmanazar.

With baked and boiled, and stewed and toasted,

And fried and broiled, and smoked and roasted,

We treat the town.

PRINTED FROM THE ORIGINAL EDITION, WITH A PREFACE AND NOTES BY EVERT A. DUYCKINCK.

NEW YORK:

G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS,

FOURTH AVENUE AND TWENTY-THIRD STREET.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by

THE EXECUTORS OF

J. K. Paulding and Washington Irving,

in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for

the Southern District of New York.

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