Ballads, Founded on Anecdotes Relating to Animals

PREFACE

Three words of Horace may form an introduction to the following pages, the very words, which that amiable physician and poet, the late Dr. Cotton of St. Alban's, prefixed as a motto to his elegant and moral little volume of Visions in Verse:

   "VIRGINIBUS PUERISQUE CANTO."

Or in plainer English prose:—The book is intended for young Readers.

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