Dreamlike Rural Boyhood and War Time Romance
A wandering narrator recalls a Septem ber day of potato digging and cowbell sounds as youth toils and cowboys. Postwar, Jack Trimbly returns home wounded and faces rumors of romance with Carrie Neilson, while Tevis loyalty and a town’s gossip shape their futures culminating in a wedding.
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Trimbly
Tavie
Tevia
Agch
Hobson
Gracie
Carrie Neilson
Aura
Wat Levi
Jack
Wats
Carrie
Tevis
Maother
Bat Bia
Jack'e
Mahila
Slater
Wat Tevis
Manilla
Apeak Tayal
Tagal
Font
Watt Tevis
Bes
Tavis
Tuck Teimbly
Manils
Hinaelf
Helina
Ds Bie
San Francisco
Philippines
Indian Ocean
P “Guiok
Manila
Bob
Haman
Odd tale of a missing lug and a stubborn chew
Reading like a patchwork of frontier humor and rural dialogue a shopper buys a piece of sole leather as a prank or test and a country old man swears he has bitten the plug for six days until he admits he bought it as tobacco and cannot tear it apart. A separate vignette shows a family car ride and a boy asking for a man’s wheel while a father debates purchases and payment methods.
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Vickeborg
Cecily
Pagenis
New York
Grant
Pop
Sdj
Couras
Montly
Theo
Ossh
Artful Observation and Beauty In Everyday Life
A Christian Intelligencer excerpt urges training the eye to notice nature and art around us. It tells of a neighbor city exhibition, a student who sees details others miss, and compares two boys on a walk to show how attentive perception shapes understanding.
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New York
London
Acton
Academy
Moore
Buneet
Filtecin
Sye
Bara V. du Bole
Pasquotank Perquimans and the Street Vendor Tale
An undersized boy named Pasquotank Perquimans, calling himself Tank, chats about his sparse earnings and hard life on his Nort Carolina beat. He explains his day’s profits, vowing to live to care for his mammy, while the narrator questions his small income.
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Tank
Pasquotank Perquimans
Pasqnotank Perqaimang
Father favors mercantile path over professions for son
A couple discusses the future of their son, the mother favoring a probertation path while the father warns crowded professions and recalls a brother’s costly education. The father’s work with Bradley Garraton Go Limited has brought travel and earnings, shaping his push for the boy to join the publishing house with a good salary offer.
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Bradley- Garrotaon Go., Limited
Brantford
Ont
Tron
sliEp
Australia
Seuth Africa
England
United States
Te “Wan
Notton
Ming
Copoorally
A Hundred Miles and a City of Noise
A speaker recalls a country ride and the line about traveling a hundred miles through woodland aisles. The scene shifts to a 18th century British debate on bribery in Parliament during the India bill era. Sheridan laments corruption and refuses to name the Secretary to the Treasury John Robinson, noting the difficulty of naming him yet implying the accusation.
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Mablea
Milomi
Shiswae
Fox
Chie
John Robinson
Sheridan
Rore Heraly
Air
Jack Robinson
Women Turn Ingenuity To Earning A Living At Home
The article describes women adapting to necessity by turning to home crafts. One uses artistic management to decorate homes while another learns mending, reading, and shop work. A skilled young woman copies fine china painting, replacing broken pieces so perfectly that the hand painted work is indistinguishable from imported china.
Painter Asked to Paint Father of Client Who Died Ten Years
A distraught client demanded a portrait of his father who had died ten years earlier. The artist questioned the request and finally agreed, but the tale spiraled into a curious scene with awkward dialogue and shifting tones as plans for the portrait unfolded.
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Alexander the Great
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