. The old garret . PART SECOND. BY MRS. FOLLEN. ill) BOSTON:WHITTEMOKE, NILES, & HALL, MILWAUKIE :A. WHITTEMORE & CO. 1856. T- THE NEW YOKK fPUBLIC LID2ARY 264939B ASTOR. »:ox AND TILDlsN tfUJJMJAllONSR 1944 L Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by WHITTEMORE, NILES & HALL,In the Clerks Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. ELECTROTYPED AT THEBOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY. THE OLD OYS are not apt to forget apromise of a story. Frank and Harry did not (5) > > » 6 THE OLD GARRET. fail to call upon their mother for the historyof the old
. The old garret . PART SECOND. BY MRS. FOLLEN. ill) BOSTON:WHITTEMOKE, NILES, & HALL, MILWAUKIE :A. WHITTEMORE & CO. 1856. T- THE NEW YOKK fPUBLIC LID2ARY 264939B ASTOR. »:ox AND TILDlsN tfUJJMJAllONSR 1944 L Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by WHITTEMORE, NILES & HALL,In the Clerks Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. ELECTROTYPED AT THEBOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY. THE OLD OYS are not apt to forget apromise of a story. Frank and Harry did not (5) > > » 6 THE OLD GARRET. fail to call upon their mother for the historyof the old musket. It appeared to me, said the mother, thatthe old musket was not very willing to tell hisstory. He had a sort of old republican pride,and felt himself superior to the rest of thecompany in character and importance. Whenhe had made himself heard in the world hith-erto, it had always been by one short, but verydecided and emphatic word; he despised anything like a palaver; so he began very abruptly,and as if he had half a mind not to speak atall, because he could not speak in his own way. None but fools, said he, have much tosay about themselves — Deeds, not words, is agood motto for all. But as I would not bechurlish, and as I have agreed, as well as therest of my companions, to tell my story, I will THE OLD GARRET. 7 mention what few things worth relating I canrecollect. I have no distinct consciousness, as myfriend
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