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                   THE

                TALISMAN:


                    A

              TALE FOR BOYS.


                 BOSTON:

  WAIT, GREENE & CO.--13, COURT STREET.

                  1829.




DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS.--_to wit_:

                    _District Clerk's Office._

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the twenty fifth day of June, A. D. 1829,
in the fifty third year of the Independence of the United States of
America, WAIT, GREENE & CO. of the said district, have deposited in
this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as
proprietors, in the words following, _to wit_:

    "The Talisman: a Tale for Boys."

In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States,
entitled "An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the
copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of
such copies, during the times therein mentioned:" and also to an Act
entitled "An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, An Act for the
encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and
books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times
therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of
designing, engraving and etching historical and other prints."

                    JNO. W. DAVIS,
                    _Clerk of the District of Massachusetts_.


    PRESS OF PUTNAM & HUNT.
    41, Washington Street.




THE TALISMAN.


Frank had heard a great deal about the city, but he had never seen
it, for he lived more than a hundred miles from New York, and still
farther from Boston. His father and mother had made visits to both
these places, several times, but it had never been convenient to
them to take Frank. On their return, they always brought him many
pretty presents of books or toys, and