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THE AUTHOR OF "TRIXIE"
Dear Sir,
We, the undersigned, beg to inform you that "Trixie" and "Edgar and Lilian" were both written wholly by the first of us and that the second of us did nothing but lend his name (for reasons which need not be specified) to the two works in question.
(Signed) Samson Roach,
Bisham Dunkle.
The Archdeacon was not a little proud of this composition. How short and to the point it was, he thought. How simple and intelligible! Not a superfluous word. Not an ambiguity anywhere. Was ever a piece of information so astonishing conveyed to the public with greater directness and economy of effort? He thought not. A statement, this, that he who ran might read and comprehend.
