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THE OLDEN TIME SERIES
SOME STRANGE AND CURIOUS PUNISHMENTS
_Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow
For others' good, and melt at others' woe._
POPE: Odyssey.
_But hushed be every thought that springs
From out the bitterness of things._
WORDSWORTH.
THE OLDEN TIME SERIES.
GLEANINGS CHIEFLY FROM OLD NEWSPAPERS OF BOSTON AND SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS
SELECTED AND ARRANGED, WITH BRIEF COMMENTS
BY
HENRY M. BROOKS
Some Strange and Curious Punishments
"Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is
no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.
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