106.3

OR,

LIFE IN THE OLD FIELD.

A HUMOROUS NOVEL.

BY

CAPT. GREGORY SEAWORTHY.

AUTHOR OF "NAG'S HEAD."

"Leves, non praceter solitum."-HORACE.

"Faith, thin! it's a pairt o' me systim, sir!"-THE IRISH TUTOR.

WITH A LETTER TO THE AUTHOR FROM

WASHINGTON IRVING.

PHILADELPHIA:

A. HART, LATE CAREY AND HART.

126 CHESTNUT STREET.

ENTERED according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1851, by

A. HART,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

PHILADELPHIA:

T. K. AND P. G. COLLINS, PRINTERS.

Apr

TO A. HART, ESQ.

MY DEAR SIR

To whom so appropriately as to yourself can I dedicate the following pages? Very few things could give me so much pleasure as the knowledge that the volume will seem to you a worthy token of the hearty regard with which

I am

Yours, always,

GREGORY SEAWORTHY.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 15, 1850.