GAR

THE

CIRCUIT RIDER:

A Tale of the Heroic Age.

BY

EDWARD EGGLESTON,

66

Author of "The Hoosier School-master," The End of the

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by

J. B. FORD & COMPANY,

in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C.

juv.ca SBN

1ST 851212

TO MY COMRADES OF OTHER YEARS,

THE BRAVE AND SELF-SACRIFICING MEN WITH WHOM I HAD THE HONOR TO BE ASSOCIATED IN A FRONTIER MINISTRY,

THIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED.