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          CHANTICLEER:


              A

      THANKSGIVING STORY

              OF

      THE PEABODY FAMILY.




        SECOND EDITION.


  BOSTON: B. B. MUSSEY & CO.
  NEW-YORK: J. S. REDFIELD.
            1850.


  ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1850.

        BY J. S. REDFIELD,

  in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States,
  for the Southern District of New York.




PREFACE.


Shall the glorious festival of Thanksgiving, now yearly celebrated all
over the American Union, (said the author to himself one day,) be
ushered in with no other trumpet than the proclamations of
State-Governors? May we not have a little holiday-book of our own, in
harmony with that cherished Anniversary, which, while it pleases your
fellow-coun