JOHN WILLIAMS,
OR THE
SAILOR BOY.
BOWLES AND DEARBORN, 72 WASHINGTON STREET.
Isaac R. Butts & Co. Printers.
1827.
DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, to wit:
District Clerk’s Office.
Be it remembered, that on the twenty-third day ofMarch, A. D. 1827, in the fifty-first year of the Independenceof the United States of America, Bowles &Dearborn of the said district, have deposited in this officethe title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors,in the words following, to wit:
“John Williams, or the Sailor Boy.
In conformity to the act of the Congress of the UnitedStates, entitled, “An act for the encouragement of learning,by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to theauthors and proprietors of such copies, during the timestherein mentioned;” and also to an act entitled “An actsupplementary to an act, entitled, an act for the encouragementof learning, by securing the copies of maps, chartsand books to the authors and proprietors of such copiesduring the times therein mentioned; and extending thebenefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving andetching historical and other prints.”
JNO. W. DAVIS, } Clerk of the District
} of Massachusetts.
It was a severely cold morning inJanuary, which succeeded a heavy fallof snow through the night, five wintersago, that I remarked from my parlourwindow, a child lingering round thegateway; he was apparently ten oreleven years of age, and miserably cladin tattered garments, that seemed illcalculated to exclude the cold.
I beckoned him from the window tocome in, but the moment he perceivedme he shrunk aside, and directly ranaway.
The circumstance soon passed frommy mind, and I thought no more of theboy till the following day, when I sawhim again by the gate.
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