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                              PAPERS FROM OVERLOOK-HOUSE.

                                   By Caspar Almore


    PHILADELPHIA
    J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.
    1866.

    Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by
    J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.,
    In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Eastern District
    of Pennsylvania.




CONTENTS.


    INTRODUCTORY LETTER                                               5

       CHAPTER I. ARRIVAL AT THE VILLAGE                             13

      CHAPTER II. THE WELCOME AT OVERLOOK-HOUSE                      18

     CHAPTER III. THE CHRISTMAS LOG IN THE KITCHEN                   33

      CHAPTER IV. HOW THE OVERLOOK PAPERS CAME TO BE WRITTEN         47

        I. DR. BENSON; OR THE LIVING MAN EMBALMED FOR TWENTY YEARS   51

       II. THE GHOST AT FORD INN--NESHAMONY                          75

      III. MY FIRST ATTEMPT AT BIOGRAPHY;--OR, LITERATURE FOR A
           FAIR WIDOW                                                91

       IV. KATYDIDS:--A NEW CHAPTER IN NATURAL HISTORY              127

        V. THE IMAGE-MAKER                                          139

       VI. THE CLOUDS                                               142

      VII. THE PROTECTOR DYING                                      145

     VIII. THE INDIAN DREAM-CELL                                    149

       IX. WILD FLOWERS GATHERED FOR MY WIFE                        178

        X. RIVERSDALE                                               181

       XI. DR. SAMUEL STANHOPE SMITH AND THE HAUNTED HOUSE          198

      XII. MRS. DIGBY'S ECONOMY                                     224

     XIII. TO MY WIFE                                               236

      XIV. FADING AWAY