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                            ROUND THE SOFA.

                           BY THE AUTHOR OF

      “Mary Barton,” “Life of Charlotte Bronte,” &c. &c.


                             TWO VOLUMES.

                                VOL. I.

                                LONDON:

             SAMPSON LOW, SON & CO., 47 LUDGATE HILL.

                                 1859.


     LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET.




PREFACE.


Most of these Stories have already appeared in <i>Household Words</i>: one,
however, has never been published in England, and another has obtained
only a limited circulation.




ROUND THE SOFA.


Long ago I was placed by my parents under the medical treatment of a
certain Mr. Dawson, a surgeon in Edinburgh, who had obtained a
