ORLANDO CHESTER: OR THE ADVENTURES OF A YOUNG HUNTER. A STORY OF OLD VIRGINIA'S EARLY DAYS.
BYSYLVANUS COBB, JR.
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1852.Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by F. GLEASON, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.PUBLISHER'S NOTE.—The following Novellette was originally published in the PICTORIAL DRAWING-ROOM COMPANION, and is but a specimen of the many deeply entertaining Tales, and gems of literary merit, which grace the columns of that elegant and highly popular journal. The COMPANION embodies a corps of contributors of rare literary excellence, and is regarded as the ne plus ultra, by its scores of thousands of readers.
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