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AUTUMNAL LEAVES.

AUTUMNAL LEAVES:

TALES AND SKETCHES

IN

PROSE AND RHYME.


BY

L. MARIA CHILD.

NEW YORK:
C. S. FRANCIS & CO., 554 BROADWAY.
BOSTON:—53 DEVONSHIRE STREET.
1857.
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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856,
By C. S. Francis & Co.,
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the
Southern District of New York.
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Several of the articles contained in this volume have appeared invarious periodicals ten or twelve years ago. Others have been recentlywritten, during the hours that could be spared from daily duties.

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CONTENTS.