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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1870
Page
6
A collection of comic tales recounts a dwarf losing his oak home to storms and finding a cottage, a liar of mischief named My Son John, a philosopher solving the St Ives riddle, and a barber who shaves a fool by mistake. The jokes swing from whimsy to moral quips in a late 19th century tone.
At Fort Scott Kansas a man buying a lot can dig stone to build a house cement for the cellar and cistern ocher to paint the house and coal enough at the bottom to last the family a lifetime. There is as much fact as fancy in this.
A didactic poem in verse questions a child about temper and effort. It urges smiling, doing work, and gratitude rather than sulking or complaining. The speaker asks the little reader to accept hardships and pursue earnest effort.
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