THE

GREAT SLIGHTED FORTUNE.

BY J. D. Bell.

"We are all of us richer than we think; but we are taught to borrow
and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than
of our own."
MONTAIGNE, Essays, Book III., Chap. XII.

O foolish men! they sell their inheritance (as their foolish Mother
did hers), though it is Paradise, for a crotchet."

CARLYLE, The Diamond Necklace.

NEW YORK:
PUBLISHED BY T. Y. CROWELL,

NO. 744 BROADWAY.