Front matter

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LITTLE ALFRED.

BY

THE AUTHOR OF “LITTLE ELLA.”

Behold I have prepared the tenderest grass

That grows on Zion’s hill. Here feeble lambs

May find sweet nourishment, and gather strength

To climb the verdant heights, where the fair flock

On richer pasture feed.—Peep of Day.

EDITED BY D. P. KIDDER.

New-York:

PUBLISHED BY LANE & SCOTT,

FOR THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION OF THE METHODIST

EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 200 MULBERRY-ST.

Joseph Longking, Printer.

1850.

IIIEntered according to Act of Congress, in the

year 1847, by Lane & Tippett, in the Clerk’s Office

of the District Court of the Southern District of

New-York.

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