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THE

ATLANTIC MONTHLY.

_A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics._

VOL. XV.--APRIL, 1865.--NO. XC.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by TICKNOR AND
FIELDS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of
Massachusetts.




ADVENTURES OF A LONE WOMAN.


"I will go and see the oil," remarked Miselle, at the end of a reverie
of ten minutes.

Caleb laid the "Morning Journal" upon the table, and prepared himself
calmly to accept whatever new dispensation Providence and Miselle had
allotted him.

"Whaling?" inquired he.

"No, not