CONTENTS.

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The Inn Kitchen, .......

The Spectre Bridegroom, .........

A Wet Sunday in a Country Inn,.....

An Obedient Hen-pecked Husband,

A Desirable Match,....

A Rival,

An Invitation,.........

A Dutch Entertainment,...

War, ....................

* English Stage Coachmen,..

The Waltz, ..........

Dutch Tea-parties, ........

Cosmogony,.............

Dutch Legislators, ....

The Little Man in Black,

My Aunt Charity, ....

Will Wizard,..

Style,......................

Frenchmen,

The Wife, .............

To Anthony Evergreen, Gent.g. ....

............ 79

Showing the Nature of History in General. -further-

more, the Universal Acquirements of William the

....73

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Testy, and how a man may learn so much as to

render himself good for nothing, ..................80

Dirk Schuiler and the Valiant Peter, ................88

Description of the powerful Army that assembled at

the City of New-Amsterdam-together with the in-

terview between Peter the Headstrong and General

Von Poffenburgh, and Peter's sentiments respecting

unfortunate great men,..............

Of Peter Stuyvesant’s Expedition into the East Coun-

try, showing that though an Old Bird, he did not un-

derstand Trap,.................................96

How the People of New-Amsterdam were thrown into

a great Panic by the news of a threatened Invasion,

and the manner in which they fortified themselves,...103

The troubles of New-Amsterdam appear to thicken,

showing the bravery in time of Peril of a People

who defend themselves by Resolutions,.............106

The Widow and her Son,....

..........113

Storm at Sea,....

John Bull.................

Consequence,.............

The Cockloft family,.......

Conversion of the Americans,

Tom Straddle,

142

Sleepy Hollow,

Ichabod Crane, ......

n149

Superstition,.......

.....159

The Broken Heart..

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A Wreck at Sea,.......

Land, ........

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Genius, ....

A Contrast, .............

.............164

Letter from Mustapha Rub-a-dub Keli Khan to Asem

Hacchem, Principal Slave-Driver to his Highness

the Bashaw of Tripoli,....

................168

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A warlike Portrait of the Great Peter, ..., .173

Mutability of Literature,....

Book-Making, ....................

..184

A Dutch Settler's Dream,...

The Pride of the Village,...

Domestic Scene,...........

Master Simon,...............

Perseverance,..

Doleful Disaster of Anthony the Trumpeter,..........ib

The Grief of Peter Stuyvesant... .....

The Dignified Retirement and Mortal surrender of

Peter the Headstrong,....

Morning, ......

...................205

The Author's Account of his History of New-York,..206

Westminister Abbey,.......

.........207

Master Henry Hudson,...

Master Robert Juet,.....

A Dutch Voyage of Discovery,......

..........210

Letter from Mustapha Rub-a-dub Keli Khan to Asem

Hacchem, Principal Slave-Driver to his Highness

the Bashaw of Tripoli....... ..............211

Autumnal Reflections,.....

.............216

The Family of the Lambs,........

.....220

Blindmans'-Buff, .........

...........223

The Angler,............

............. 26

Rural Life in England, ...........................225

Letter from Mustapha Rub-a-dub Keli Khan to Muley

Helim al Raggi, surnamed the Agreeable Ragamuf-

fin, chief Mountebank and Buffo-dancer to his

Highness,........

...............228

James I. of Scotland, ...................

.................236

How Peter Stuyvesant relieved the Sovereign People

from the burden of taking care of the Nation-with

sundry particulars of his conduct in time of peace, ....ib.

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Showing the great difficulty Philosophers have had in

peopling America—and how the Aborigenes came to

be begotten by Accident, to the great relief and satis.'

faction of the Author, ..........................244

Wouter Van Twiller, ...........................250

The Grand Council of New-Amsterdam-with rea-

sons why an Alderman should be Fat,............254

Ichabod Crane and the Galloping Hessian,..........258