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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1898
Page
3
A lyric about a merry brown thrush perched in a tree singing of a joyful world. It urges children to be good or the happiness may fade as the thrush continues to sing through the day.
Polly, a 12 year old, frantically tends a home and a window garden for a week as her mother visits Aunt Hetty. With Eliza's help and her father’s old fashioned wisdom, Polly waters plants, cares for ferns and a century plant, and fears missing her mother’s approval. Mrs. Davis assists and suspects watering gaps as Polly juggles chores and flowers.
Polly falters as she tends Aunt Hetty's flowers while her mother praises her success at home. A misadventure with overwatering leads to oats sprouting beneath the dining room carpet, a humorous reminder that Polly will not rise to the occasion in her gardening duties.
A poem recounts townsfolk watching a long comet tail across the sky. Debates arise on whether the tail is dust destined to fall into the sun or illumined air. Some offer amused hypotheses while scholars hesitate to explain the tail’s true nature.
A narrator in a lodging house observes Miss Caverly at a moonlit window. He debates addressing her at 1 am but fears social impropriety. The exchange hints at insomnia and a playful, cautious streetwise flirtation as Hallett Graves arrives at the door.
A narrator recalls a sleepless New York building where Graves Graves and Mrs Gale form an insomnia club on the top floor. Frances Caverly, the only one with restraint, becomes the object of the narrator's affection as the group stages nights on a fire escape roof. The climax comes when the narrator and Frances confess their feelings after a tense escape and the club dissolves.
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