GOLDEN DREAMS
AND
LEADEN REALITIES.

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GOLDEN DREAMS

AND

LEADEN REALITIES.

BY

RALPH RAVEN.

WITH AN

INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER,

BY

FRANCIS FOGIE, Sen., Esq.

New York:
G. P. PUTNAM & CO., 10 PARK PLACE.

M.DCCC.LIII.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853,
By G. P. Putnam and Company,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

Billin & Brothers, Printers and Stereotypers, 20 North William street, N. Y.

INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER.

So! I have come to be an old man at last! and I hav'n't been a great while about it either. No one is a great while about anything nowadays. Where is my life? heighho! here I am holding tight on to the little end, and it slipping all the while