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AUTHOR OF 'THE ENTAILED HAT," "TALES OF THE CHESAPEAKE," etc.

"Older than the Shenandoah mountains is love."

EMERSON.

NEW YORK

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

1886

COPYRIGHT, 1886,

By D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.

All rights reserved.

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COLONEL JOHN HAY,

WHOSE ACQUAINTANCE I MADE IN THE WHITE HOUSE,

WHERE THE PRESIDENT AND EMANCIPATOR

LAY DEAD.

ANNA B. H. WATMOUGH

2144 Wyoming 1.4.

Washington, D. C.