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or tell #endlys sleepystories about nothing. But it would have been worth any Timea statesmans heart good money to have heard the profound disccessions that sometimes took place, when by chance an old newspaper host fell into their hands

M. S. Page. Sketch Book from the original in the possession of

Mr JC. Brevoort.

IRVINGIANA:

A MEMORIAL

LIBRARY

OF

WASHINGTON IRVING.

E. A. Bryckmek

-Tread lightly on his ashes, ye men of genius,-
for he was your kinsman :

Weed his grave clean, ye men of goodness,-for he
was your brother.

TRISTRAM SHANDY, CHAP. CLXXXVI.

NEW YORK:

CHARLES B. RICHARDSON.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859,

BY CHARLES B. RICHARDSON,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern

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