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P E A R L - F I S H I N G.
FROM
FIRST SERIES.
AUBURN:
ALDEN, BEARDSLEY & CO.
ROCHESTER:
WANZER, BEARDSLEY & CO.
1854.
| Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by ALDEN, BEARDSLEY & CO., In the Clerk’s Office of the Northern District of New York. |
Stereotyped by
THOMAS B. SMITH,
216 William St., N.Y.
The Publishers’ Notice.
THE following Stories are selected from that admirable publication,“Dickens’ Household Words.”
That work has had a smaller circulation in this country than its meritsentitle it to, in consequence of its being issued in such form as tomake it troublesome to preserve the numbers, and have them bound. Manyof its papers, too, are of local and somewhat temporary interest, whichscarcely touches the popular mind of American readers. It is believed,therefore, that judicious selections from its pages, embracing some ofits best stories, in which the hand of the master is readily discerned,will be welcomed with delight in many a home in which the name ofDickens has become as “familiar as household words.”
I.
Loaded Dice.
SEVERAL years ago, I made a tour through some of the Southern Countiesof England with a friend. We travelled in an