[Footnote 4: _A History of American Literature Since 1870_, pp 79-81.]

[Footnote 5: "The Works of Bret Harte," twenty volumes. The Houghton
Mifflin Company, Boston.]

[Footnote 6: _The Cambridge History of American Literature_, Vol. II,
p. 386.]

[Footnote 7: See this Introduction.]

[Footnote 8: _The Cambridge History of American Literature_, Vol. II,
p. 385.]

[Footnote 9: Fred Lewis Pattee, in The Cambridge History of American
Literature, Vol. II, p. 394.]

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To: CHARLES GOODRICH WHITING, Critic, Poet, Friend

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THE LITTLE FRENCHMAN AND HIS WATER LOTS

BY GEORGE POPE MORRIS (1802-1864)

[From _The Little Frenchman and His Water Lots, with Other Sketches of