Excerpt from It Tickled Him: Around the World With George Hoyt Allen

Gentle, or savage reader, as the case may be, you who pick up this book, if there's a doubt in your mind as to whether it's full of hot stuff or not, forget it. You can dip into it anywhere and be warmed, and clothed and fed, edified, nourished, and built up. I ought to know, I wrote it.

But I wouldn't ask you to take my unsupported word in this matter. Bless you, no. Having worked off more than fifty of the years allotted to me and in that time bumped up against a good share of the billion and a quarter gentle and savage critter, called man, who infest this globe, I know just what a suspicious lot you are, and, instead of swallowing that statement, bait, hook and sinker, as you should do without question, you'll go swimming around looking at it out of Missouri eyes and saying "show us." Say, why can't you take what's set before you for once in your life and ask no questions for conscience sake? I once knew a fellow who made a fortune by just taking a chance.

In support of my bold assertion as to the quality of the stuff herein set forth, and to allay your suspicions I have prepared for you Chapter I, telling how I met LaFollette's.

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