NORSTONE;

OR,

THE RIFTS IN THE CLOUD.

BY

M. E. HATTERSLEY.

BIBLIVINE
JUN !F79

BODLEIANA

GRIFFITH AND FARRAN,
CORNER OF ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD,

PRINTED BY C. AKRILL, LINCOLN.

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PREFACE.

W

HILE presenting this book for the perusal of the public, I am consoling myself for its deficiencies, with the time-honoured adage, "Everyone must have a beginning."

Why not remedy the defects, if you are aware of their existence? some would say. Advice more easily given than followed, at this early stage of my labours; the sovereign, and indeed, only remedy, being locked up in the school of that severe, but most faithful taskEXPERIENCE.

master,

1879.

MARY EMMA HATTERSLEY.