Borrowing to escape debt ends in ruin in Oglethorpe tale
A rewardless bid to borrow out of trouble ruins Peter Oglethorpe, despite lender advice to seek prudent aid. Coworker Jacob Spicer manipulates him toward debt, and ruin follows as interest accrues, neglect harms business, and the debtor learns a hard moral about not borrowing to solve financial woes.
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Peter Oglethorpe
Oglethorpe
Mr. Oglethorpe
Mr. Spicer
Jacob Spicer
Spicer
Luwianum
Mischief and morals in a campus and beyond
A collection of humorous anecdotes and moral observations. Students trap a professor with hot mush during a nocturnal card game. A general misreads a moonlight signal, and a chorus of social critiques condemns extravagance and idleness. A proposed Niagara velocipede crossing and quotations from literature punctuate the piece.
Paper Petticoats Take Center Stage in Satirical Era
An amusing passage quips that paper can be used for endless novelty garments in the nineteenth century. It envisions paper petticoats as practical art canvases with sketches by young ladies, poets inscribing verses on hems, and mothers teaching through embroidery, all while a mocked seaside promotion promises serialized fiction in petticoats.
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Lesus
Madame Percale
Anthony Trollope
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