Excerpt from The Jimmyjohns: And Other StoriesHow easy she goes joey moonbeam, dorothy beeswax, betsey ginger, and polly cologne the jimmyjohns and the gulls the little boys, half crying, held fast BY the sides OF the boat joey moonbeam's new hat over went the barrel, and over went HE flowers waking UP the barrel-man looking AT his possessions the barrel-man cuts the branches, and the owner complains the horses and the oxen appear IN sight the...
Excerpt from Polly Cologne
Question. Who was Polly Cologne?
Answer. A rag baby. She began her life as a rag-baby and never was anything else.
Q. Where was the home of Polly Cologne?
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Excerpt from The Schoolmaster's Trunk: Containing Papers on Home-Life in Tweenit
Pies again! Always pies! One, two, three, four, this is the fifth time, within, say, ten days or a fortnight, that, to my knowledge, pies have stood in the way of better things.
First, my hostess, Mrs. Fennel, could not leave to take a ride with me a few mornings ago, because "we are entirely out of - pies." Mrs. Fennel, poor woman, is far from well, and what wi...
Excerpt from William Henry and His Friends, Vol. 5
I took a long vacation, and spent it at the Farm. There is no reason why the reasons for my doing so should be given, but, for the satisfaction of those who must know every thing (this to the curious only), I will state that my bodily health was some distance below par, and that, in fact, I had been under the doctor's charge and charges ever after serving in the Army of the Potomac.
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Excerpt from Domestic Problems: Work and Culture in the Household, and the Schoolmaster's Trunk Containing Papers on Home Life in Tweenit
A few, a very few, of our women are able to live and move and have their being literally regardless of expense. These can buy of skilled assistants and competent supervisors, whole lifetimes Of lei sure, with these, therefore, Our problem has no concern. The larger class, the immense majority, either do the...
Excerpt from The Religious Training of Children
Truth should be the ground of all teachings, and surely of religious teachings. In the first place, then, since "God" is the declared standard of perfection, and "Heaven" the supreme object of human attainment, let us free both from the falsities now so widely taught, for while these are accepted as truth, how can the true get recognition?
Mark how man has manufactured a God out of himself, and...
Excerpt from Bybury to Beacon Street
Friend Solomon:
Can you not, seeing that you are named for a wise man, suggest some wise plan for helping us through the winter? We are a small neighborhood, wedged in among the hills, with many long evenings in prospect. These evenings might be made profitable, in the best sense of the word, if we only knew how to make them so. What I should like would be to bring the people together occasionally, but, w...
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Abby Morton Diaz was a teacher at Brook Farm (1843-47) and, much later, a founder of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union of Boston. She was an organizer in the Woman's Clubs movement. Diaz was among the 19th century anti-vivisection activists. She was also among the early organizers of the movement sometimes called New Thought, which organized as the Metaphysical Club of Boston. Her religious association was Unitarian. Abby Morton Dia...
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