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would be but. faint praise indeed ! I was delighted WITH 

 IT ; and, to convince you how intensely interested I was by- 

 it, I need only assure you that I did not leave the lounge' 

 on which I was seated, from the moment of commencing 

 with the dedication, until my eye fell upon the finale of 

 your most laughable and spirited book. 



Permit me to congratulate you on the certain success 

 that must attend you With this volume, and to express the 

 hope that you may have thousands of lady readers for this 

 charmingly-pleasant and mirth-moving volume, which has 

 afforded me so much greitification. 



Respectfully yours, 



Charlotte T. Sumner. 



To George P. Burnham, Esq., Boston, Mass. 



Mrs. H. Marion SiEPHEifS, the gifted and popular 

 authoress, in a letter to one of the leading literary journals 

 in New York city, thus compliments this book. 



"Talking of the ' Hen Fever' — have you read Burn- 

 ham's book ? 0.f course you have. Through the courtesy 

 of the author I received an early copy, and I have n't done 

 cromnff over it yet. My other half had been lying ill for. 

 some days, when the book came, and I first opened it late 

 in the evening, for the purpose of reading him to sleep. 

 Books, now-a-days, are such splendid soporifics ! Let some 

 M. D. prescribe a dozen pages of any recent novel, and see 

 how it takes the wake out of people's eyes. Well, as I was 

 saying, I read a few pages, waiting for the accustomed snore 



