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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.