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Title: Horse-Shoe Robinson
A Tale of the Tory Ascendency

Author: John Pendleton Kennedy

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Language: English

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HORSE-SHOE ROBINSON.

A Tale of the Tory Ascendency.

by

JOHN P. KENNEDY

Author of "Swallow Barn," "Rob of the Bowl," Etc.

"I say the tale as 't was said to me."--Lay of the Last Minstrel

Revised Edition.

New York
G. P. Putnam's Sons
182 Fifth Avenue
1876

Entered according to the act of Congress, in the year 1852, by
George P. Putnam,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District
of New York.

To WASHINGTON IRVING, Esq.

DEAR IRVING:--

With some little misgiving upon the score of having wasted time and
paper both, which might have been better employed, I feel a real
consolation in turning to you, as having, by your success, furnished our
idle craft an argument to justify our vocation.

You have convinced our wise ones at home that a man may sometimes write
a volume without losing his character--and have shown to the incredulous
abroad, that an American book may be richly worth the reading.

In grateful acknowledgment of these services, as well as to indulge the
expression of a sincere private regard, I have ventured to inscribe your
name upon the front of the imperfect work which is now submitted to the
public.

Very truly, yours, &c.,
JOHN P. KENNEDY.
BALTIMORE, _May 1, 1885_.

INTRODUCTION

In the winter of eighteen hundred and eighteen-nineteen, I had occasion
to visit the western section of S