THE JUVENILE SCRAP BOOK.

FOR MDCCCXLIX.

EDITED BY,
GRANDFATHER MERRYMAN.

New York. D. Appleton & Company 200 Broadway

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THE
JUVENILE SCRAP-BOOK
FOR
1849;
A
CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR’S PRESENT
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.

EDITED BY
GRANDFATHER MERRYMAN.

WITH TWENTY-EIGHT ENGRAVINGS ON STEEL.

NEW-YORK:
D. APPLETON & CO., 200 BROADWAY.
PHILADELPHIA:
GEO. S. APPLETON, 143 CHESNUT-STREET.
MDCCCXLIX.

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Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1848, by
D. Appleton & Co.,

In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court for the Southern District ofNew-York.

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PREFACE.

One day while sitting in my garden at my country-seatin New York State, from which, by looking at thetitle, you will see I have a fine view of the high bridgeacross the Harlem River, one of my favorite littlegranddaughters came running to me, just as I hadseated myself in my old garden-seat, and earnestlybegged me to again read her book to her. But, as Ithought she had heard those stories so often, I supposedshe would like to hear some new ones muchbetter, so I related to her two or three. With these,and with others that I told her during the holydayswhich she was spending with me, she was so muchpleased, that I thought my numerous juvenile friendsthroughout the country would also like to possess[iv]them. I have accordingly collected them into a volume,which my publishers have made very attractiveby the addition of twenty-eight beautiful engravings;and it is now offered as a Christmas and New Year’sPresent, to amuse and instruct you, by your friend,

Grandfather Merryman.

Philadelphia, December, 1848.

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