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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by

FOWLERS AND WELLS,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern
District of New York.

N. Y. STEREOTYPE ASSOCIATION,
201 William Street, N. Y.

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DELIA'S DOCTORS.

66

I.

THE YOUNG INVALID.

"They tell me spring is coming,

That buds begin to swell;

They bid me trust the warm, bright days

Will cheer and make me well."-MRS. S. J. HALE.

NEW ENGLAND had been favored with "a moderate winter." There had been, indeed, no want of bracing air and violent storms; but so many mild, pleasant days had been granted, that the sages, who discussed the weather upon 'Change; the editors, who duly recorded its fluctuations in the public journals; and the venerable dames, who regularly compared the predictions of the almanac with the actual state of the atmosphere-all concurred in the opinion, that for many years we had not experienced so warm a winter. Aunt Deborah, a firm believer in the doctrine of Compensation, solemnly shook her head, declaring, with oracular look and tone, "that it made no kind of difference; the spring would be severe enough; and that, take the year through, we must have the same amount of cold,

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