BY TRIFLE AND THE EDITOR BOSTON: MILWAUKIE: A. WHITTEMORE & CO. M DCCC LVI. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by WHITTEMORE, NILES, AND HALL, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. ΤΟ GEORGE STILLMAN HILLARD, WHO HAS PROVED THAT THE PURSUITS OF LITERATURE ARE NOT INCONSISTENT WITH THE DUTIES OF A PRACTICAL AND PROFESSIONAL LIFE, THIS VOLUME IS CORDIALLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHORS. PREFATORY. ONE bright day in the summer of '55, when the sun glared fiercely upon the bricks and slates of the hard-baked city, and the fashionable world had fled to Saratoga, or Newport, or the sea-shore, the writers of the following papers. turned aside from the hot and dusty streets to the green sward of the Common; and under the shadow of the old elms reclined for a season, to indulge in fresher airs and in friendly discourse. Trifle had recently migrated from the town, and pitched his tent in the country, where he could look upon wooded hills and hear the music of the sea. The relief from the oppression of city life, and the genial influences of the country, expanded his generous heart, and with a kindly impulse he proposed to write a letter from his new domicile for the Editor's paper. The offer was gladly accepted, together with the condition that a reply should follow in the same columns. It was thus that the Trifleton Papers were commenced, and there it was supposed they |