"I have no wife nor children, good or bad, to provide for. A mere spec-
tator of other men's fortunes and adventures, and how they play their parts,
which, methinks, are diversely presented unto me, as from a common theatre or
scene."-Burton.

THE AUTHOR'S REVISED EDITION

COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME.

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HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

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DANIEL B. FEARING
30 JUNE 1915

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1848, by
WASHINGTON IRVING,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of

New York.