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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1908
Page
6
Reminiscences of Frank Stockton's Rudder Grange chickens and names after literary friends evoke playful anecdotes. Quotations range from Jean Ingelow's verse to humorous mispronunciations and an anecdote about Stuttering suspect Sisson.
A teacher asks Tommy what he would think if the tare and stripes waved over battle field. He replies the wind would be blowing, revealing a humorous take on enthusiasm. The piece moves through a series of family jokes about a daughter in law showing no redeeming features.
A fragmentary historical excerpt recounts anecdotes and moral jests from the old South, including a cabin visit with a mother burying losses and seven children, a railway reading scene with a curious blue eyed child, and conjoined quips about race and wealth amid references to Lincoln era politics and social foibles.
Two stories unfold in a seaside scene. A girl seeks portents from a clairvoyant and learns she must part from a man with black eyes. A lawyer and a judge exchange sharp wits in a courtroom satire about who wins.
A fragmentary essay traces the nightingale motif in Barnefield Milton and Coleridge. It contrasts melancholy associations in ancient verse with Coleridge’s protest that nature is not melancholy, noting Milton’s dramatic lyricism and subsequent critical defenses.
A grandmother reads the New Testament to Little Mabel when her mother overhears the girl scolding the servants. The child says she was telling those wicked and sothtp servants to hurry up dinner in a peremptory tone.
At a reception just before his marriage Congressman Longworth faced a stunned crowd. A bemused Longfellow replied to a remark about their similar names with a witty quotation. The moment reflected a mix of public attention and polite humor surrounding the wedding period.
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