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    My Mother's Gold Ring Founded on Fact Eighth Edition
    My Mother's Gold Ring Founded on Fact Eighth Edition
    My Mother's Gold Ring Founded on Fact Eighth Edition
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    My Mother's Gold Ring Founded on Fact Eighth Edition

    By Lucius M. Sargent

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Title: My Mother's Gold Ring Founded on Fact

      Eighth Edition

      Author: Lucius Sargent

      Release Date: March 8, 2012 [EBook #39080]

      Language: English

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      Number One.

      MY MOTHER'S GOLD RING.

      FOUNDED ON FACT.

      Eighth Edition.

      Boston:

      PUBLISHED BY FORD AND DAMRELL.

      1833.

      Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1833, by

      FORD AND DAMRELL,

      In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

      TO THE READER.

      This is the first of a series of stories, of which it possibly may be the beginning and the end. The incident, which is the foundation of the following tale, was communicated to the writer, by a valued friend, as a fact, with the name of the principal character. Another friend, to whom the manuscript was given, perceiving some advantage in its publication, has thought proper to give it to the world, as Number One; from which I infer, that I am expected to write a Number Two. The hint may be worth taking, at some leisure moment. In the mean time, pray read Number One: it can do you no harm: there is nothing "sectarian" about it. When you have read it, if, among all your connexions and friends, you can think of none, whom its perusal may possibly benefit—and it will be strange if you cannot—do me the favor to present it to the first little boy

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