Gossip About Children by Lewis Gaylord CLA
A reflective essay to Godey about parenting and childhood echoes, recounting tender incidents from the narrator’s youth and a Boston family tragedy. It urges gentleness toward children, sharing memories of kite mishaps, a doll’s mutilation, and a bereaved father’s repentance after learning a son died due to stern discipline.
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Goney
Godey
Washington
Willis
Fulton
Geoffrey Crayon
Thomas
Baltimore
Boston
Enii
Henry
Jane
Jin
Down the burn Davie love song of Mary and Davie
A Scots poetry fragment recalling young Mary at fifteen and Davie’s bold courtship. The couple’s love grows as they travel to the kirk where Davie makes Mary his bonny bride. The verses celebrate rustic springtime and pledged faith.
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Davie Love
Mary
Love
Davie
Kirk
The Yellow Creek Murder and Logan's Speech
The piece reprints Logan's eloquent address charging Col Cresap with Yellow Creek murders and documents Myers Ohio testimony two years earlier. Myers, now an elderly veteran, recalls the 1774 killings after crossing the Ohio near Hollow Rock. His narrative supports palliating some atrocity while still noting an unprovoked murder near Yellow Creek. A Cincinnati Times anecdote follows about a horse and a Dutch rider.
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Yellow Creek
Col. Cresap
Logan
Ohio
Michael Myers
Myers
Sloan
Cresap
Clark
Sappington
Connelly
Lord Dunmore
Baker's
Great House
A Curious Mixture of Remedies and Odd Notions
The piece mixes a home remedy for cough using liquorice gum arable and paragoric with antimonial wine, all costing about fifteen cents. It then describes making currant wine with fermentation, notes ancient Egyptian perfume preservations, and ends with a sharp remark about the needle versus weapons and a pistol in keeping women out of mischief.
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Coop
California
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