WORDSWORTH.



THE OLDEN TIME SERIES.

GLEANINGS CHIEFLY FROM OLD NEWSPAPERS OF BOSTON AND SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS

SELECTED AND ARRANGED, WITH BRIEF COMMENTS

BY

HENRY M. BROOKS



Some Strange and Curious Punishments

"Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is
no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by
proclivity, and by delight, we all quote."--EMERSON

BOSTON
TICKNOR AND COMPANY
1886


_Copyright, 1886_,
BY TICKNOR AND COMPANY.