CAMPERDOWN; OR, NEWS FROM OUR NEIGHBOURHOOD: BEING SKETCHES, BY THE AUTHOR OF “OUR NEIGHBOURHOOD,” &C. _PHILADELPHIA_: CAREY, LEA & BLANCHARD. 1836. Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1836, by CAREY, LEA & BLANCHARD, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DEDICATION. THIS LITTLE VOLUME IS DEDICATED TO MRS. WILLIAM MINOT, A lady distinguished as a writer and an artist; and esteemed by her friends for her domestic virtues. With her accomplishments, and excellence of character, she would be appreciated any where; but it has been her peculiar good fortune to belong to Boston; a place, above all others, wherein a woman receives that high respect and consideration to which she is so justly entitled. Table of Contents DEDICATION. PREFACE. THREE HUNDRED YEARS HENCE. THE SURPRISE. THE SEVEN SHANTIES. THE LITTLE COUPLE. THE BAKER’S DOZEN. THE THREAD AND NEEDLE STORE. PREFACE. A few years ago a book was published, called “Our Neighbourhood;” and those who read it, will recollect that the author intended, in the second series, to give a short sketch of some of the most conspicuous characters therein mentioned. The second series is now presented to the public, and is called “Camperdown,” the name of our neighbourhood. The work will be continued, under different titles, until the author has accomplished the object stated in the preface to the first series; and which the tenor of the two volumes will more fully explain. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THREE HUNDRED YEARS HENCE. CHAPTER I.