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CONTENTS OF VOL. I.
Page.
Chap.
1. A Scene in the Park, and a Walk on the Battery 5
2. Heroines on and off the stage 21
3. A Renunciation 33
4. Explanations and concealments 41
5. Beginning of a town—and a man 45
6. A sporting gentleman and a philosophic lady 51
7. We go from home to Boston 60
8. An old Bachelor's house, a Lawyer's Office, and a Play
in Boston 699. How to study law.—A change of destination 81
10. We return home,—Medicine and Theology in Vermont 87
11. We go to England, and what we did there 85
12. We come back to the starting-place.—A Scene behind
the curtain 10113. A Walk out of town 108
14. The difference between a tavern and a horse-shed 117
15. The Walk back to town 123
16. The Lunatic Asylum 135
17. The result of Intemperance, and a Sick Chamber 149
18. A little mystery, and an old acquaintance 157
19. A dinner party in 1811 165
20. Conversation and coffee.—Politeness and harmony 176
21. Midnight and an apparition 186
22. Things as they were thirty years ago 200
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