IF, YES, AND PERHAPS. FOUR POSSIBILITIES AND SIX EXAGGERATIONS, WITH SOME BITS OF FACT.
BYEDWARD E. HALE.
BOSTON: TICKNOR AND FIELDS.
1868.Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by TICKNOR AND FIELDS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. UNIVERSITY PRESS: WELCH, BIGELOW, & CO., CAMBRIDGE.
DEDICATION.
I DEDICATE this book to the youngest of my friends, now two hours old. Fun, fact, and fancy,—may his fresh life mix the three in their just proportions.
MILTON, June 6, 1868.
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CONTENTS.
- THE CHILDREN OF THE PUBLIC. 1
- A PIECE OF POSSIBLE HISTORY. 58
- THE SOUTH AMERICAN EDITOR. 78
- THE OLD AND THE NEW, FACE TO FACE. 100
- THE DOT AND LINE ALPHABET. 116
- THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE RESOLUTE. 130
- MY DOUBLE, AND HOW HE UNDID ME. 171
- THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY. 199
- THE LAST OF THE FLORIDA. 242
- THE SKELETON IN THE CLOSET. 253
- CHRISTMAS WAITS IN BOSTON. 270
