"Charley, old feller," said Jim, "I's not what I used to was-I aint myself-I aint nobody-I aint nothing-I wish I was! I have wound up my affairs, and am in a state of liquor-dation."

Society in the Great Metropolis of the South.
Tim D. Corccia y.

WITH

ORIGINAL DESIGNS,

BY FELIX O. C. DARLEY.

PHILADELPHIA:
CAREY AND HART.

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

STEREOTYPEĎ BỶ L. JOHNSON
PRINTED BY T. K. & P. G. COLLINS, PHILADELPHIA.

JOSEPH C. NEAL, Esq.

SIR-Without the privilege of your personal acquaintance, I take the liberty to dedicate to you the accompanying volume of sketches.

If in them I have succeeded in "holding the mirror up to nature," than you there is none more capable of discerning the truth and accuracy of the reflection. I shall cheerfully submit their defects to the impartial criticism of one so competent to judge of their merits as you

are.

Your obedient servant,

The Author,

D. CORCORAN.

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