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THE SNOW-DROP

A Holiday Gift

BY MISS SARAH S. MOWER.

1851






PREFACE.


The Authoress of "THE SNOW-DROP" has been misfortune's child. Disease
laid its relentless hand upon her in early childhood. It deprived her of
a common school education and the world's sweet intercourse. Such has