TO THE READER. This is the first of a series of stories, of which it possibly may be the beginning and the end. The incident, which is the foundation of the following tale, was communicated to the writer, by a valued friend, as a fact, with the name of the principal ciiaracter. Another friend, to whom the manuscript was given, perceiving some advantage in its publication, has thought proper to give it to the world, as Number One ; from which I infer, that 1 am expected to write a Number Two. The hint may be worth taking, at some leisure moment In the mean time, pray read Number One: it can do you no harm: there is nothing ustctarian" about it When you have read it, if, among all your connections and friends, you can think of none, whom its perusal may possibly benefit—and it will be strange if you cannot—do me the favor to present it to the first little boy that you meet. lie will,
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