CHAPTER I.
DR. SINGLETARY is dead!
Well, what of it? All who live die sooner or later; and pray who wasDr. Singletary, that his case should claim particular attention?
Why, in the first place, Dr. Singletary, as a man born to our common inheritance of joy and sorrow, earthly instincts and heavenward aspirations,—our brother in sin and suffering, wisdom and folly, love, and pride, and vanity,—has a claim upon the universal sympathy....
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