BELFAST:

M'Caw, Stevenson & Orr,

Printers,

The Linenhall Works.

I DEDICATE

THIS VOLUME

TO THE MEMORY OF

MY MOTHER.

The Author desires to acknowledge her indebtedness to the REV. CANON MACILWAINE and SIR SAMUEL FERGUSON; to the former for his valuable advice and assistance in bringing this volume through the press; and to the latter for his kindness in permitting the vignette which appears on the title-page to be so employed.

Lines on hearing a woman singing "Write me a Letter

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