OF

WASHINGTON IRVING

IN TWELVE VOLUMES

VOL. IX.

THE SKETCH BOOK

TALES OF A TRAVELLER

NEW YORK

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS

27 AND 29 WEST 23D STREET

1881

$17,2 1721au

v.9

738716

THE SKETCH BOOK

OF

GEOFFREY CRAYON, GENT.

"I have no wife nor children, good or bad, to provide for. A mere spectator of other men's fortunes and adventures, and how they play their parts, which, methinks, are diversely presented unto me, as from a common theatre or scene."-BURTON.

AUTHOR'S REVISED EDITION

ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1848, by

WASHINGTON IRVING,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.