PREFACE 



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Thanking my patrons for past favors, and respect- 

 fully soliciting a continuance of the same, I present 

 the second edition of this work, and invite to it the 

 careful and unprejudiced consideration of every 

 one who may read its pages. 



Mrs. Lizzie E. Cotton. 



West Gorham, Sept. i, 1883. 



