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AUTHOR OF "TRUTH IS EVERYTHING;" "NURSERY GUIDE;" "STORIES OF ENGLANDAND HER FORTY COUNTIES;" AND "THOUGHTS FOR HOME."
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children ofGod.... Matt v. 9.
LONDON: A. HALL. VIRTUE, & CO.. PATERNOSTER ROW; NORWICH: JOSIAHFLETCHER.
MDCCCLI.
NORWICH; PRINTED BY JOSIAH FLETCHER.
INTRODUCTION.
One bright afternoon, or rather evening, in May, two girls, with basketin hand, were seen leaving the little seaport town in which theyresided, for the professed purpose of primrose gathering, but in realityto enjoy the pure air of the first summer-like evening of a season,which had been unusually cold and backward. Their way lay through bowerylanes scented with sweet brier and hawthorn, and every now and thenglorious were the views of the beautiful ocean, which lay calmlyreposing and smiling beneath the setting sun. "How unlike that stormy,dark, and noisy sea of but a week ago
