[Illustration: AUNT DELIGHT'S SCHOOL.]
PETER PARLEY'S
OWN STORY.
_FROM THE PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF THE LATE
SAMUEL G. GOODRICH_, ("_PETER PARLEY_.")
With Illustrations.
NEW YORK:
PUBLISHED BY SHELDON & COMPANY,
335 BROADWAY, COR. WORTH ST,
1864.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by
THE HEIRS OF S. G. GOODRICH,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for
the Southern District of New York.
ELECTROTYPED BY SMITH & MCDOUGAL, 82 & 84 BERKMAN ST.
PRINTED BY C. S. WESTCOTT & CO., 79 JOHN ST.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
PAGE
Birth and Parentage--The Old House--Ridgefield--The
Meeting-house--Parson Mead--Keeler's Tavern--The
Cannon-ball--Lieutenant Smith 9