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MRS. HOFLAND.--THE HISTORY OF AN OFFICER'S WIDOW, and her Young
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MISS ABBOT.--KATE AND LIZZIE; OR SIX MONTHS OUT OF SCHOOL.

MISS ELIZA ROBBINS.--CLASSIC TALES. Designed for the Instruction
and Amusement of Young Persons. By the author of "American Popular
Lessons," &c.

MRS. S.C. HALL.--TURNS OF FORTUNE; ALL IS NOT GOLD THAT GLITTERS, &C.

---- THE PRIVATE PURSE; CLEVERNESS, and other Tales.

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_Containing_ Ole Luckoeie; The Buckwheat: The Wild Swans; The Angel;
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The Ugly Duck; AND OTHER TALES: by Hans Christian Andersen.

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TURNS OF FORTUNE;

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1851.

CONTENTS

TURNS OF FORTUNE 9

"ALL IS NOT GOLD THAT GLITTERS" 63

"THERE IS NO HURRY" 143

TURNS OF FORTUNE

CHAPTER I.

"Hush, Sarah!" exclaimed old Jacob Bond, as he sat up in his bed,
while the wind clattered and whistled through the shivering window
frames. "Hush! Is that Brindle's bark?"

"No, father; it is one of the farm dogs near