To the 



Memory of my Father 



HENRY GEORGE HINE 



In whose character, under another name, I here try 



to tell others all that he so often told me about 



the people and places of his youth, and 



to whose tender heart, retentive mind, 



and happy gift of telling I 



owe ivhatever is of 



worth in 



them , 



/ dedicate tJiis handful of 



true stories 



