_With Illustrations by_
Howard Pyle
[Illustration]
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Houghton, Mifflin and Company
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
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Copyright, 1858, 1877, 1886, and 1890,
BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
Copyright, 1891,
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