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Title: Sketches of Aboriginal Life
American Tableaux, No. 1

Author: V. V. Vide

Release Date: August 14, 2010 [EBook #33433]

Language: English

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AMERICAN TABLEAUX,

No. 1.

SKETCHES

OF

ABORIGINAL LIFE.

'Tis like a dream, when one awakes,--
These visions of the scenes of old;
'Tis like the moon, when morning breaks;
'Tis like a tale round watch-fires told.

By V. V. VIDE.

NEW-YORK:
PUBLISHED BY BUCKLAND & SUMNER,
79 JOHN-STREET.
1846.

Entered according to Act of Congress,
in the year 1846, by
BUCKLAND & SUMNER,
in the Clerk's office of the District Court
of the United States, for
the Southern District of New York.

Stereotyped by Vincent L. Dill,
128 Fulton st. Sun Building, N. Y.

C. A. Alvord, Printer, Cor. of John and Dutch sts.

PREFACE.

The American Tableaux lay no claim to the respect and confidence, which
is justly shown to authentic history; nor do they anticipate the ready
favor usually accorded to high wrought romance. They are neither the one
nor the other. The general outline is designed