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of 334 pages."--_New York Picayune._
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WILD OATS SOWN ABROAD; OR, ON AND OFF SOUNDINGS,
BY A GENTLEMEN OF LEISURE.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS OF THIS EXTRAORDINARY WORK.
Opening the Journal.
Adventure in search of Ruin.
Parting Tribute to Love.
Three Desperate Days!
The Poetry of Sea-Sickness.
The Red Flannel Night-Cap.
A Ship by Moonlight.
Arrival in London.
The Parks of London.
Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey.
England's Monuments.
Madame Tussaud's Wax Works.
The "Beauties" of Hampton Court.
Love and Philosophy.
"Love's Labor Lost."
A Peep at "The Shades."
The Modern "Aspasia."
Noble Plea for Matrimony.
The Lily on the Shore.
English Mother and American Daughter.
The "Maid of Normandie."
An Effecting Scene.
"Paris est un Artist."
The Guillotine.
"Give us Another!"
Post Mortem Reflections.
Fashionable Criticism.
Whiskey Punch and Logic.
"Shylock asks for Justice!"
"Lorette" and "Grisette."
Kissing Day.
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