To Mr.Lowell belongs the distinction of being the only one of our most eminent authors and the only one of our most eminent scholars who has given careful attention to American dialects.

But while I have not ventured to discuss the provincialisms of the Indiana backwoods, I have been careful to preserve the true _usus loquendi_ of each locution.
BROOKLYN, December, 1871.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I PAGE A Private Lesson from a Bulldog.

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37 CHAPTER II.
A Spell Coming.