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Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 [1840], Mr. Higginbotham's catastrophe (Nafis & Cornish, New York) [word count] [eaf128].
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Front matter Covers, Edges and Spine

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Hic Fructus Virtutis; Clifton Waller Barrett [figure description] Bookplate: heraldry figure with a green tree on top and shield below. There is a small gray shield hanging from the branches of the tree, with three blue figures on that small shield. The tree stands on a base of gray and black intertwined bars, referred to as a wreath in heraldic terms. Below the tree is a larger shield, with a black background, and with three gray, diagonal stripes across it; these diagonal stripes are referred to as bends in heraldic terms. There are three gold leaves in line, end-to-end, down the middle of the center stripe (or bend), with green veins in the leaves. Note that the colors to which this description refers appear in some renderings of this bookplate; however, some renderings may appear instead in black, white and gray tones.[end figure description]

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Painted by Rob. W. Weir; Eng. by A.B. Durand [figure description] Illustration of a man and woman stepping into a rowboat (or life boat or other small boat), while looking over their shoulders. The man accompanying the woman is armed with a sword and a sickle (or small scythe or curved blade). Behind them is a man pushing open a hatch in a ship's deck from below, who appears to be looking at the man and woman as they step into the row boat.[end figure description]

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TALES FOR THE TIMES: BEING A SELECTION OF
INTERESTING STORIES.
NEW YORK:
PUBLISHED BY NAFIS & CORNISH,
278 PEARL STREET.

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1840,
By S. G. Goodrich,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.
STEREOTYPED AT THE
BOSTON TYPE AND STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY.

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CONTENTS.

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The Lame Pig, - - - 3

A Night's Adventure - - - 12

From the Journal of an Odd Fellow, - - - 15

Madame Brillante, - - - 21

Rumpelstilzchen, - - - 29

The Furlough, - - - 32

Lord Vaporcourt, - - - 34

The Magie Spinning-Wheel, - - - 60

A Rill from the Town Pump, - - - 81

London Omnibusses, - - - 88

The Coach Wheel, - - - 94

The Piper of Neisse, - - - 95

Too Handsome for Any Thing, - - - 106

The Good-Natured Couple, - - - 113

The First Time of Asking, - - - 119

A Legend of Tom Thumb, - - - 127

A Chapter on Ears, - - - 135

Lesson in Biography, - - - 141

Horrors of a Head-Dress, - - - 149

The Last of the Serpents, - - - 162

Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe, - - - 164

The Elopement, - - - 179

The Dilemma, - - - 186

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 [1840], Mr. Higginbotham's catastrophe (Nafis & Cornish, New York) [word count] [eaf128].
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