DEDICATION. 



To whom can I more appropriately dedicate this 

 little literary effort than to my parents ? 



My mother's earliest lessons inculcated a love 

 of Nature along with a love of Virtue and of 

 my fellow-men. 



My father first introduced me to the green 

 fields of my native valley, and on the lovely 

 banks of the stream which meanders there so 

 musically, initiated me into the mysteries of 

 " the gentle art ; " and thus, in actual contact 

 with Nature's beauties, assisted to develop the 

 germs of admiration of those beauties which my 

 mother's lessons had implanted. 



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