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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 idea of the following tale was conceived on
reading, many years ago, “The Memoirs of an
American Lady,” by Mrs. Grant, of Laggan; and
the work partly finished about that time. The
reader acquainted with the book referred to will,
perhaps, wonder at the indiscretion of the author
of the Dutchman's Fireside in thus, as it were, provoking
a comparison with one of the finest sketches
of early American manners ever drawn.

April, 1831.

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