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It is now five years since an event occurred which so colored my life, / or rather so changed some of its original colors, that I have thought / it well to write an account of it, deeming that its lessons may be of / advantage to persons whose situations in life are similar to my own.
When I was quite a young man I adopted literature as a profession, and / having passed through the necessary preparatory grades, I found myself, / after a good many years of hard and often unremunerative work, in / possession of what might be called a fair literary practice. My / articles, grave, gay, practical, or fanciful, had come to be considered / with a favor by the editors of the various periodicals for which I / wrote, on which I found in time I could rely with a very comfortable / certainty. My productions created no enthusiasm in the reading public; / they gave me no great reputation or very valuable pecuniary return; but / they were always accepted, and my receipts from them, at the time to / which I have referred, were as regular and reliable as a salary, and / quite sufficient to give me more than a comfortable support.