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Bertha and Her Baptism, by Nehemiah Adams
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Title: Bertha and Her Baptism
Author: Nehemiah Adams
Release Date: January 23, 2007 [EBook #20428]
Language: English
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BERTHA AND HER BAPTISM.
By the Author of
AGNES AND THE LITTLE KEY; or, BEREAVED PARENTS INSTRUCTED AND COMFORTED.
BOSTON: S.K. WHIPPLE AND COMPANY, 161 WASHINGTON STREET. 1857.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by S.K. WHIPPLE & CO., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
STEREOTYPED BY HOBART & ROBBINS, New England Type and Stereotype Foundry, BOSTON.
PREFACE.
This book, and that which is also named in the title-page, were written at the same time, and as one book; but they were afterward separated, as more properly constituting two volumes, the part which was the original of the present volume now being greatly enlarged. Thus the two books grew in the author's mind together, from one and the same root,--the death of