PREFACE.

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Pernars some of my readers will
think it unnecessary that I should
write a whole book merely to illus-
trate two such little words as, “ Be
True ”—only six letters in the whole.
But, my dear young friends, if words
are to be valued in proportion to the
number of letters which they con-
tain, some of our native Indian
words would be almost ivaluable.
You will not admit this; nor will you

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