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Kittredge, George Lyman. Old farmer and his almanack. [*]$2.50. Ware.

Some observations on life and manners in New England a hundred years ago, suggested by reading the earlier numbers of Mr. Robert B. Thomas’s “Farmer’s Almanack”; together with extracts, curious, instructive, and entertaining, as well as a variety of miscellaneous matter.

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