The Dutchman's Fireside
Publisher: Reprint Services Corp
Published: 1831
Format: Library Binding
ISBN-13: 9780781287012
First sentence: "Somewhere about the time of the old French war," there resided on the rich border that skirts the Hudson, not a hundred miles from the good city of Albany, a family of some distinction, which we shall call Vancour, consisting of three brothers whose names were Egbert, Dennis, and Ariel, or Auriel as it was pronounced by the Dutch of that day.
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