E OLDEN TIME SERIES

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LITERARY CURIOSITIES

_Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature._--LAMARTINE.

_The careful reader of a few good newspapers can learn more in a year
than most scholars do in their great libraries._--F.B. SANBORN.

_No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at
first._--CARLYLE.

THE OLDEN TIME SERIES.

GLEANINGS CHIEFLY FROM OLD NEWSPAPERS OF BOSTON AND SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS

SELECTED AND ARRANGED, WITH BRIEF COMMENTS

BY

HENRY M. BROOKS

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Literary Curiosities

"Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread
that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity,
and by delight, we all quote."--EMERSON

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BOSTON

TICKNOR AND COMPANY

1886

_Copyright, 1886,_

BY TICKNOR AND COMPANY.

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INDEX OF NAMES.

PAGE
ADAMS, JOHN 82, 107
Adams, Rev. Mr. 8
Adams, Sally 8
Aiken, Rev. Mr. 125
Aldrich, Mrs. 105
Andre, Major 111
Arnold, Benedict 32, 33
Averell, Joseph 7

BARNARD, EDWARD 19
Barnard, Rev. Thomas 19
Barnard, Thomas, D.D. 19
Bayley, Matthew 105
Belcher, Governor 6
Belcher, Miss 5
Binney, Spencer 8
Birbeck, Morris 42
Blunt, John 39
Blunt, Mary Ann 39
Bons, Francis 103
Bowen,