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ANNA MARY AND ALFRED WILLIAM

HOWITT,

These Sketches,

ORIGINALLY WRITTEN FOR THEIR AMUSEMENT,

ARE

AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED.

THESE simple and unpretending Sketches require no introduction; and yet, when titlepage, contents, and dedication have been made out, an introduction so naturally follows, that it might be supposed a book could not be put together without one,-though the writer, as in my case, has little to say either of herself or her volume.

All, therefore, that I shall now remark is, that these Sketches were written for my own Children; and many of them at their suc

gestion; and that in seeing the pleasure they have derived from them, I have hoped their

ung contemporaries may find them equally agreable. A few of them have already appeared in some of the Juvenile Annuals, and may therefore be familiar to many of my young readers; but I trust they will pardon a reprint of what is already known, in the pros

pect of finding more that is new.

Nottingham, May 1834.