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       [Illustration: MRS. PETERKIN PUTS SALT INTO HER COFFEE.]


                                 THE

                           PETERKIN PAPERS



                                  BY


                           LUCRETIA P. HALE


                          With Illustrations


                           SEVENTH EDITION.





                         BOSTON AND NEW YORK

                    HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

                   The Riverside Press, Cambridge.

                                 1893



                           Copyright, 1880

                     By JAMES R. OSGOOD & COMPANY

                               and 1886

                         By TICKNOR & COMPANY

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THE PETERKIN PAPERS

Dedicated

TO MEGGIE

(THE DAUGHTER OF THE LADY FROM PHILADELPHIA)

_TO WHOM THESE STORIES