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Title: The Lost Hunter
A Tale of Early Times

Author: John Turvill Adams

Release Date: March 11, 2005 [EBook #15328]

Language: English

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THE LOST HUNTER.

A Tale of Early Times.

"And still her grey rocks tower above the sea
That murmurs at their feet, a conquered wave;
'Tis a rough land of earth, and stone, and tree,
Where breathes no castled lord or cabined slave;
Where thoughts, and tongues, and hands, are bold and free,
And friends will find a welcome, foes a grave;
And where none kneel, save when to heaven they pray,
Nor even then, unless in their own way."
HALLECK

NEW YORK:

DERBY & JACKSON, 119 NASSAU STREET.
CINCINNATI:--H.W. DERBY.

1856.

ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by

J.C. DERBY,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for
the Southern District of New York.

W.H. TINSON, Stereotyper.

PUDNEY & RUSSELL Printers.

APOLOGY

As one might justly be considered a clown, or, at least, not well
bred, who, without tapping at the door, or making a bow, or saying "By
your leave," or some other token of respect, should burst in upon
a company of persons unknown to him, and instead of a welcome would
deserve an unceremonious invitation to betake himself elsewhere
forthwith; so, I suppose, in presenting myself before you, my
honored Public, it is no more than civil to say something by way of
introduction. At least, I have observed from my obscure retreat in the
quiet village of Addlebrains, that the fashion in this respect, which
has prevailed, certainly, since the time of St. Luke, who commences
his Gospel with a preface to Theophilus, has come down to the present
day, differing therein from other fashions, which, for the most part,
are as transitory as the flower