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2127
Mike Fink Trying to Scare Mrs. Crockett
2128
Sal Fink, the Mississippi Screamer, How She Cooked Injuns
2128
The Death of Mike Fink (Joseph M. Field, recorder)
2132 Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1790-1870) 2132 The Horse Swap
2136 George Washington Harris (1814-1869) 2136 Mrs. Yardley's Quilting
2143 Washington Irving (1783-1859) 2145 from A History of New York
2145
Book I, Chapter 5
2153 Rip Van Winkle
2165 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
2185 James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
2187 from The Pioneers, or the Sources of the Susquehanna; A Descriptive Tale
2188
Chapter XXI
2195
Chapter XXII
2200
Chapter XXIII
2207 Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867) 2209 from Hope Leslie
2209
from Volume 1, Chapter 7
2214
from Volume 2, Chapter 1
2219
from Volume 2, Chapter 8
2221 Caroline Kirkland (1801-1864) 2223 from A New Home-Who'll Follow?
2223
Preface
2224
Preface to the Fourth Edition
2224
Chapter I
2228
Chapter XV
2231
Chapter XVII
2232
Chapter XXVII
2240
Chapter XLIII
2242 Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) 2245 My Kinsman, Major Molineux
2258 Young Goodman Brown
2267 The Minister's Black Veil
2276 The Birth-mark
2287 Rappaccini's Daughter 2307 The Scarlet Letter
2444 Preface to The House of Seven Gahtes