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The Dutchman's fireside

a tale
Paulding, James Kirke (1778-1860)
  
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CHAPTER I. Rural Scenes and rural Manners.
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CHAPTER II. The Reader is introduced to a bashful young Gentleman!
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CHAPTER III. A Young Lady who would have been one hundred years old had she lived long enough.
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CHAPTER IV. The Morning's smiles, the Evening's tears.
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CHAPTER V. An Irruption of Boiled Lobsters.
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CHAPTER VI. A Beau of the Old Regime.
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CHAPTER VII. An Invasion of State Rights.
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CHAPTER VIII. Our Hero, for the first time in his life, comes to a determination.
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CHAPTER IX. The Wilderness.
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CHAPTER X. A Night Scene.
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CHAPTER XI. A Woodman.
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CHAPTER XII. The Woodman's Home.
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CHAPTER XIII. The Kings of the Woods.
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CHAPTER XIV. The Stranger undertakes the reformation of our Hero.
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CHAPTER XV. Our Hero takes his departure.
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CHAPTER XVI. Showing that old Scenes revive old Habits.
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CHAPTER XVII. An irruption of wandering Arabs, and a swarming of Bees.
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CHAPTER XVIII. A civilized Savage.
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CHAPTER XVIII. Additional Traits of the civilized Savage.
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CHAPTER XX. A Hit and a Miss.
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CHAPTER XXI. A trial of Skill.
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CHAPTER XXII. Our Hero loses his character for morals and gallantry.
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CHAPTER XXIII. The Pipe is broken at last.
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CHAPTER XXIV. A Separation instead of a Union.

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THE
DUTCHMAN'S FIRESIDE.

A TALE.

Harper's Stereotype Edition. BY THE AUTHOR OF “LETTERS FROM THE SOUTH,” “THE BACKWOODSMAN,” “JOHN BULL IN AMERICA,” &c. &c. “Somewhere about the time of the old French war.”

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

NEW-YORK:
PUBLISHED BY J. & J. HARPER, 82 CLIFF-STREET.
Sold by Collins & Hannay, Collins & Co., G. & C. & H. Carvill, White, Gallaher,
& White, E. Bliss, and C. S. Francis;—Albany, O. Steele, and Little
and Cummings;—Philadelphia, John Grigg, Carey & Lea, Towar &
Hogan, E. L. Carey & A. Hart, T. Desilver, jr., and U. Hunt;—Boston,
Richardson, Lord, & Holbrook. Carter, Hendee, & Babcock, and Hilliard,
Gray, & Co.;—Baltimore, W. & J. Neal, J. Jewett, and Cushing & Sons.
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