FROM THE

HARVEST-FIELDS OF LITERATURE.

Walter String

Melange of Excerpta,

CURIOUS, HUMOROUS, AND INSTRUCTIVE.

COLLATED BY

C. C. BOMBAUGH, A.M., M.D.

"So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was
about an ephah of barley.”—RUTH ii. 17.

"I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my
own but the string that ties them."-MONTAIGNE.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by

T. NEWTON KURTZ,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Maryland.

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