AND ITS EXCITERS;

OR,

Rational Laughter and its Dromoters.

Benjamin Franklin

B. F. CLARK,

Pastor of the Congregational Church, North Chelmsford, Mass., from 1839 to 1869.

BOSTON:

LEE AND SHEPARD,

149 WASHINGTON STREET.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by

B. F. CLARK,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

BOSTON:

STEREOTYPED BY C. J. PETERS & SON,

No. 5, WASHINGTON STREET.

PN 6161 .054

To

THE HIGH AND THE LOW,

THE RICH AND THE POOR,

THE LEARNED AND THE UNLEARNED,

THIS BOOK

IS MOST RESPECTFULLY

DEDICATED.