OF

CITY LIFE;

OR,

STRAY LEAVES FROM THE WORLD'S BOOK,

BEING A

Series of Tales, Sketches, Incidents, and Scenes,

FOUNDED UPON THE NOTES OF

A HOME MISSIONARY.

BY JAMES REES,
Author of “The Philadelphia Locksmith," k The Nighthawk Papers,” &c.

6

The needy man who hath known better days,
One whom distress has spited at the world,
Is he whom tempting fiends would pitch upon
To do such deeds as make the prosperous men
Lift up their heads, and wonder who could do them.

НомЕ.

PHILADELPHIA:
J. W. MOORE, No. 193 CHESNUT STREET,
OPPOSITE THE STATE HOUSE.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1848, by

JAMES REES,

BY ONE WHO IN THE DAYS OF HIS BOYHOOD, RECOGNISED IN HIS

PLAYMATE AND FRIEND, ALL THOSE AMIABLE TRAITS OF

CHARACTER, AND NOBLE QUALITIES, WHICH NOW