Molly and Kitty, or Peasant Life in Ireland; with Other Tales

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MOLLY'S PEASANTS.
TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN,
Trauermantel.
BOSTON: CROSBY, NICHOLS, & CO., 111 Washington Street, 1856.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by Crosby, Nichols, and Company, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
CAMBRIDGE:
METCALF AND COMPANY, STEREOTYPERS AND PRINTERS.
My Dear Ernest:—
Although it is highly improbable that your happy and sheltered childhood and youth will ever be checkered by the struggles with fortune and the world painted in the following Scenes from Life, yet I am sure they cannot fail to interest you, increase your sympathy with all who suffer, and teach you to rejoice in the well-earned triumphs of uprightness, perseverance, patient study, benevolence, and the forgiveness of injuries. While reading them, will you not sometimes bestow a kind remembrance upon your friend and cousin,
THE TRANSLATOR.