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WHOSE DISINTERESTED SERVICES IN CARING FOR
MY WIFE
DURING SEVEN CRITICAL PERIODS,
AND LIKEWISE
CARING FOR SEVEN CHILDREN
DURING
TEETHING, MEASLES, MUMPS, SCARLATINA, AND OTHER DISEASES
INCIDENTAL TO CHILDHOOD,
RECEIVING THEREFOR
ONLY WHAT SHE ATE,
MERIT NOT ONLY PRAISE BUT ADMIRATION,
AND WHOSE LEAVING MY HOUSE, UMBRELLA AND ALL, ALWAYS AT THE
PRECISE TIME WHEN THERE WAS NO MORE HARD WORK
TO DO, WAS CONSIDERATION ITSELF,
I DEDICATE THIS VOLUME,
AS THE LEAST THAT I CAN DO IN ACKNOWLEDGMENT,
SWEARING, HOWEVER, NEVER TO FORGET HER,
While Catnip blooms, Soothing Syrup is made,
And Reason holds its throne.