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Title: Old New England Traits

Author: Anonymous

Editor: George Lunt

Release Date: February 6, 2009 [EBook #28013]

Language: English

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OLD NEW ENGLAND TRAITS

EDITED BY

GEORGE LUNT

... this story's actually true.
If any person doubt it, I appeal
To history, tradition, and to facts,
To newspapers, whose truth all know and feel.
BYRON

NEW YORK
PUBLISHED BY HURD AND HOUGHTON
Cambridge: the Riverside Press
1873

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by
GEORGE LUNT,
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE:
STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY
_H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY_.

INTRODUCTION.

The Editor of this little volume does not deem it incumbent upon him to
explain in what way the author's manuscript came into his possession. He
hopes it may be enough for him to say, that the writer believed himself
to be the only person whose memory retained most of the incidents and
anecdotes herein recorded; and a long and familiar acquaintance with his
character enables the Editor to state, that entire credence is due to his
narrative of facts, written down as occurring within his own knowledge
and to his relation of whatever he alleges himself to have derived from
others. A slight veil of mystery seems to have been originally thrown
over the story; especially in regard to the names of persons; but, as all
who are familiar with the locality will at once recognize its general
features, the Editor has thought it best, for the benefit of others not
so well informed, to make all proper explanations on this point in the
Index.

Sometimes, New England has been spoken of as devoid of the elements of
romance; but perhaps this idea may be owing to the fact, that the means
of presenting a different aspect of the case have not been suf