BY

A COUNTRY SCHOOLMASTER.

If I hold you overlong, lay hardly the fault on my old age, which in its
nature is talkative....SIDNEY.

NEW-YORK:

PRINTED BY J. & J. HARPER, 82 CLIFF-STREET.

BOLD BY COLLINS AND HANNAY, COLLINS AND CO., G. AND C. AND H. CAR-
VILL, W. B. GILLEY, AND 0. A. ROORBACH ;—BOSTON, RICHARDSON AND
LORD, AND HILLIARD, GRAY AND CO., AND CROCKER AND BREWSTER;-
PHILADELPHIA, CAREY, LEA, and carey, AND JOHN GRIGG ;—BALTIMORE,
W. AND J. NEAL, F. LUCAS, JR., and CUSHING AND JEWETT.

1829,

HARVARD COLLER

AUG 7 1917

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"Tales and Sketches. By a Country Schoolmaster.

"If I hold you overlong, lay hardly the fault on my old age, which in its nature is talkative.'....SIDNEY."

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