ow my head there again.

No! My double has undone me.

We left town at seven the next morning. I came to No. 9, in the Third
Range, and settled on the Minister's Lot. In the new towns in Maine, the
first settled minister has a gift of a hundred acres of land. I am the
first settled minister in No. 9. My wife and little Paulina are my
parish. We raise corn enough to live on in summer. We kill bear's meat
enough to carbonize it in winter. I work on steadily on my "Traces of
Sandemanianism in the Sixth and Seventh Centuries," which I hope to
persuade Phillips, Sampson, & Co. to publish next year. We are very
happy, but the world thinks we are undone.

FOOTNOTE:

[16] Which means, "In the thirteenth century," my dear little
bell-and-coral reader. You have rightly guessed that the question means,
"What is the history of the Reformation in Hungary?"

THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY.

FROM THE INGHAM PAPERS.

[This story was written in the summer of 1863, as a contribution,
however humble, towards the formation of a just and true national
sentiment, or sentiment of love to the nation. It was at the time
when Mr. Vallandigham had been sent across the border. It was my
wish, indeed, that the story might be printed before the autumn
elections of that year,--as my "testimony" regarding the principles
involved in them,--but circumstances delayed its publication till
the December number of the Atlantic appeared.

It is wholly a fiction, "founded on fact." The facts on which it is
founded are these,--that Aaron Burr sailed down the Mississippi
River in 1805, again in 1806, and was tried for treason in 1807.
The rest, with one exception to be noticed, is all fictitious.

It was my intention that the story should have been published with
no author's name, other than that of Captain Frederic Ingham,
U. S. N. Whether writing under his name or my own, I have taken no
liberties with history other than such as every writer of fiction
is privileged to take,--indeed, must take, if fiction is to be
written at all.

The story having been once published, it passed out of my hands.
From that moment it has gradually acquired different accessories,
for which I am not responsible. Thus I have heard it said, that at
one bureau of the Navy Department they say that Nolan was
pardoned, in fact, and returned home to die. At ano