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Excerpt from The Life and Adventures of Henry Smith, the Celebrated Razor Strop Man: Embracing a Complete Collection of His Original Songs, Queer Speeches, Humorous Letters, and Odd, Droll, Strange and Whimsical, Savings, Now Published for the First Time The extraordinary career of Mr. Smith, who, as a simple vender of Razor Strops, has made himself a sort of public character, known either personally or by report, to the citizens of every portion of our country, is sufficient excuse, if any is needed, for publishing this little work. The country is flooded with the histories of great generals, great statesmen, great lawyers and great scoundrels. Why not, then, make room for the history of a great pedlar? If to strike out a path to fame and fortune, never trodden before, be sufficient cause for notoriety, then is Mr Smith fully entitled to such a dis tinction. That he is a mere pedlar of Razor Strops, argues noth ing against his claims for the same industry, perseverance, and fruitfulness of invention, exhibited in his present business, would have made him as successful and as noted in any other profession, had fortune placed him in a more favorable position in the outset. If he had commenced life in the counting-room, he might now have been a princely merchant, instead of the prince of pedlars. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.