The Autobiography of a Beggar, Prefaced by Some of the Humorous Adventures Incidents Related in the Beggars Club (Classic Reprint)

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The Beggars' Club hereby resolves to thank Mr. George Horace Lorimer, the editor of "The Saturday Evening Post" of Philadelphia, for his signal kindness in opening the hospitable doors of his sanctum to its hungry and forlorn members; and it furthermore resolves to thank the Curtis Publishing Company for the privilege of including in this volume such of the minutes of The Club as were published serially in "The Saturday Evening Post" of Philadelphia. The Club likewise spreads upon its records an acknowledgment of the debt of gratitude which it owes to Mr. W. Glackens for his sympathetic pencil portraits and illustrations, without which the touching appeal of its members to the public for charity and forbearance might have been made in vain.

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