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�A PICKLE FOR THE KNOWING ONES;



or Plain Truths in a Homespun Dress�



by the late Lord Timothy Dexter

This transcription of Dexter's inimitable literary achievement --- "A Pickle for the Knowing Ones; or Plain Truths in a Homespun Dress" --- contains the full appendix from the first edition, as reprinted in Newburyport in 1847 by Enoch Hale, Jr. The introduction ("Preface") and the profile ("Life and Genius of Lord Dexter") --- as well as the annotations, likely from the same anonymous contributor --- originate from the 1838 reprint of Dexter's opus, which had omitted the addenda printed in the original. This appendix had been restored to later versions and is included here, along with Dexter's famous "Deare Oilen" toast to liberty and progress.

"Pickle"--- as this digest is commonly known --- is a collection of correspondence and chronicles penned by Dexter and first self-published as an anthology in May of 1802. There were at least four reprints of this publication during Dexter�s lifetime, with nearly a dozen now extant. To commemorate the 200th Anniversary of the first publication, "Pickle" is now served as "foude fer thort" on what Dexter might call a "Noue DisCovery of men and things, a Noue systom of knollege & Lite."

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