"Thou com’st in such a questionable shape,

That I will speak to thee.”

NEW YORK:

J. S. REDFIELD, CLINTON HALL.

BOSTON:—B. B. MUSSEY & CO.

1850.


PREFACE.


In my late novel of “Lilly Dawson,” I announced my intention of publishing a work to be called “The Night-Side of Nature;" this is it.