The Entailed Hat; Or, Patty Cannon’s Times

by George Alfred Townsend

Dedication

TO JUDGE GEORGE P. FISHER OF DELAWARE AND HON. JOHN A. J. CRESWELL OF MARYLAND LOVERS OF OLD TIMES WELCOMERS OF THE NEW ERA

“Friends! trust not the heart of that man for whom Old Clothes are not venerable.”—Carlyle: Sartor Resartus