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Jan. 9, 1864.]
ONCE A WEEK.
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BRACKEN HOLLOW.

A Story in Two Parts.


PART I.

"Rough! do you know what this letter means? Finish your breakfast, old dog, and come for a walk up the glen to Bracken Hollow: for the old place shall be brightened up, the shutters shall be flung open, the chimneys shall smoke, and the trees shall move away from before the doors and windows. Youth, the fairy prince, is coming on tip-toe from beyond summer seas, to tread the paths green
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