“It will be some time, dear aunt, before I will be able to write to you again, for we are going to a fine watering-place—over the seas—to seek that health for my mistress that is so plenty on our hill-side. Oh, dear! if every thing in ould Ireland was as plenty as health, what a people we should be!

“Ever, with a heart and a half, your own

“Nelly Nowlan.”


YESTERDAY—TO-DAY—TO-MORROW!

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BY CHARLES D. GARDETTE, M. D.

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Last night an aged spirit, worn with care,

Forsook its earthly tenement—to soar