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LIFE IN THE OPEN AIR,


AND OTHER PAPERS.


BY

THEODORE WINTHROP,
AUTHOR OF "CECIL DREEME," "JOHN BEENT," ETC., ETC.


Let me not waste in skirmishes my power,
In petty struggles. Rather in the hour
Of deadly conflict may I nobly die,—
In my first battle perish gloriously.
From an unpublished Poem by Theodore Winthrop.


BOSTON:
TICKNOR AND FIELDS.
1863.