BY WILLIAM D. SWAN,
PRINCIPAL OF THE MAYHEW SCHOOL, BOSTON.

PHILADELPHIA:

THOMAS, COWPERTH WAIT, & CO.

1851.

My Fon-

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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1850,

BY WILLIAM D. SWAN,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

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Franklin Buildings, Sixth Street below Arch, Philadelphia

TO

TEACHERS OF YOUNG LADIES'

SEMINARIES,

THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES,

THIS WORK

IS

BESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.