A Struggle for a Ring — page 9: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

VOB. ( - Ns Sef, wd» 6 To THE READERS OFr THE NEW YORK WHEEKLY, WHO, FOR NEARLY TWENTY YEARS, HAVE STOOD FAITHFULLY BY US, CHEERING US IN OUR LABORS, AND BIDDING US GOD-SPEED; TO WHOM OUR PET JOURNAL HAS BECOME A HOUSEHOLD WORD, AND WITHOUT WHOSE AID WE COULD HAVE ACCOMPLISHED NOTHING, THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY THE PUBLISHERS, STREET & SMITH. e. 4 | comicbooks-co