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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1873
Page
6
A garbled newspaper fragment presents a collage of dialogue and scenes. It mentions Pide and Gad, cider, ocean ironclads, Handel, Shakespeare, blacksmiths, and a Kentucky editor dunked by a prize fighter. The text shifts to questions about novels, a London photographer, railway accidents, and two bellboys at the Fifth Avenue Hotel with stray, incomplete lines.
Two girls recount anxiously awaiting and attending a first party. They decorate with flowers, anticipate grown up behavior, join games like Copenhagen, enjoy supper and piano, face a water prank, and end by learning a gentle lesson about rash promises from their mother. The reminiscence captures childlike wonder and rural social life.
Donald Mitchell notes in St Nicholas for November that authorship of the Arabian Nights is uncertain. He recalls Mayne Reid and Hannah More as misattributions and highlights Antoine Galland’s 1704 French translation as a pivotal moment. The piece connects Galland’s edition to contemporary authors and events, urging readers to consult Paris libraries for Galland’s manuscript.
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