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Oct. 10, 1863.]
ONCE A WEEK.
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THE HEIRLOOM.

IN TWO PARTS.

PART I.

There was always something peculiar about our family. As a child, I knew it well. The earliest recollections which my memory treasures up have reference to that mysterious barrier which divided the Sherringhams from the common sympathies of humanity. Mine was a prosperous lot when measured by earthly standards. I was the infant
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