Vale of Innocence, The, verse, (J. D. W.,) 81.
W.

its control as compared with some other Wanderer, The: A Tale, (G. W. Peck,) 89.

South, ib.; folly of the Caucus in assuming Zephyr's Fancy, 588.

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