Divine Creator and Judge. The case of Good _versus_
Evil, comes on in another world, at another tribunal, and, no doubt,
will be equitably adjudged.

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As I fear my readers may be dying to know what farther became of
our cheery set of travelers, I may, on some future occasion, gratify
their laudable desire after knowledge; only informing them at present
that we did reach our destination at ten o'clock that night, in
safety, although it was very dark when we passed down the dreaded
Gibbet Hill and forded the dismal Bloody Run Swamp. That Aunt Peggy's
cap was not mashed by Uncle Clive's hat, and that Miss Christine did
not put her feet into Cousin Kitty's bandbox, to the demolition of her
bonnet; but that both bonnet and cap survived to grace the heads of
their respective proprietors. The only mishap that occurred, dear
reader, befell your obsequious servitor, who went to bed with a sick
headache, caused really by her acute sympathy with the misfortunes of
the hero and heroine of our aunt's story, but which Miss Christine
grossly attributed to a hearty supper of oysters and soft crabs, eaten
at twelve o'clock at night, which, of course, you and I know, had
nothing at all to do with it.

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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:

1. Obvious printer's errors have been corrected without comment.

2. Text which was in italics in the original is surrounded by '_'.

3. The stories in the original scans had page numbers in three blocks.

The Rector of St. Marks pages numbered 1-131

Aunt Henrietta's Mistake }
False and True Love }
In the Hospital } pages numbered 171-243
Earnest and True }
Memorable Thanksgiving Days }

The Irish Refugee pages numbered 166-212

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