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Transcriber's Note: I have closed contractions in the text, e.g., "did
n't" becoming "didn't" for example;  I have also added the missing
period after "caress" in line 11 of page 61, and have changed "ever" to
"over" in line 16 of page 121.




OLDPORT DAYS.


BY

THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON.



  BOSTON:
  LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS.
  NEW YORK:
  CHARLES T. DILLINGHAM.
  1888.



  Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873,
  BY JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO.,
  in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.


  University Press:
  JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE.




CONTENTS.

  OLDPORT IN WINTER
  OLDPORT WHARVES
  THE HAUNTED WINDOW
  A DRIFT-WOOD FIRE
  AN ARTIST'S CREATION
  IN A WHERRY
  MADAM DELIA'S EXPECTATIONS
  SUNSHINE AND PETRARCH
  A SHADOW
  FOOTPATHS




OLDPORT DAYS.



OLDPORT IN WINTER.

Our August life rushes by, in Oldport, as if we were all shot from the
mouth of a cannon, and were en