Poems by Two Little American Girls from St Nicholas Magazine
Elaine and Dora Read Goodale, ten and thirteen, from Sky Farm Berkshire hills Massachusetts, share simple nature inspired verse. The collection includes The Grambler and His Youth, Rao’s Maturity, and Dora and Esdra Goodale pieces, reflecting child authorship and empathetic poems on youth and aging.
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St Nicholas Magazine
Elaine
Dora
Goodale
Hyde
Berkshire
Massachusette
Sky Farm
Small Expectations and a Family Heirloom Tale
A narrator recalls family beliefs that Uncle Burdle would leave her something at his death. She cites childhood kindness, being patted on the head with a teasing remark, and uncertainties about what might come after, as part of a broader reminiscence of expectations and memory.
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Burdle
Hetty
Uncle Buncle
Charlie
Mitchen
Ana Bogie
Barley Hill Cottage and Uncle Buncle's Six Thousand Pounds
Hetty recounts her vexing yet hopeful wait for Uncle Buncle, who visits Barley Hill Cottage, rejects comfort, and provokes chaos. A prankish wedding gift tortoise shell comb and a flood from a burst pipe culminate in Uncle Buncle’s death and a will that disinherits Hetty for vanity and deception.
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Hetty
Buncle
Uncle Bunele
Charlie
Barley Hill
Uncle Buncle
Barley Hill Cottage
Misses Jones
Misses Brown
Clarissa
Echo
Sid Charlie
Mr. Bunele
Uncle Buneles
Rande
Barley
George
Uncle Rande
Hetty Hope
Hopkins
Aged Apple Tree Stands in Wethersfield Conn
An English Pear main apple tree of mammoth size stands in Wethersfield Connecticut. It sits one foot from the ground and measures ten feet eleven inches in circumference. Brought from England by William Tryon, it is on land once part of his farm now owned by Mrs. Loveland. The tree is in good bearing condition and has yielded fruit for nearly a century before the revolution.
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Wethersfield
Conn
England
Wiliam Tryon
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Rao sFis
Dora Goodale
Ecaine Goodale
Hearta
Flaine Goodale
Miss Brown
Cade Bunncle
Cherie
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