BUNDLING;
Its Origin, Progress and Decline In America.

BY HENRY REED STILES, M.D.,
AUTHOR OF HISTORY OF BROOKLYN, HISTORY OF WINDSOR, CT., ETC.


"I find by all historians, whether ancient or modern, whom I
consulted in searching for this work, the fact well recorded, and
established beyond all controversy, that the Yankee nation are a
set of talking, guessing, swapping and _bundling_ sons of women."


_Grant Thorburn's Notes on Virginia_.


ALBANY:
KNICKERBOCKER PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1871.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871,
BY HENRY R. STILES,
In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.



TO MY ESTEEMED FRIEND,
DEACON JABEZ H. HAYDEN,
OF WINDSOR LOCKS, CONNECTICUT,