A Tale of renote Cont in the Time of Silas Wright
The author reflects on Silas Wright and Thomas Barton Haynes and contrasts Wright with Van Buren and Polk. It cites Wright’s career, his rejection of office, and his reputation as an honest man. It sketches characters inspired by Wright and related historical sources, noting imagined persons among real figures.
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Silas Wright Irving Facheller
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North American Review
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Democratic Review
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St. Lawrence
New York
Samuel Wright
Wreybridge
Vermont
Siiae Wright
President van Buren
Barton Haynea
Kate
Amon Grimshaw
Bickford
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The Melon Harvest and the Missing Inheritance
Bart Baynes, a seven year old orphan on Rattleroad, recounts his first harvest a water melon with Uncle Peabody and Aunt Deel. The tale blends domestic memory with slapstick mishaps as the prized fruit vanishes from a worn garden path, leaving a lesson on wicked people and lost pride.
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Deel
Peabody Raynes
Uncle Peabody
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Peabody
Alma Jones
Jabez Lincoln
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Mary Tumphries
Horace Dunkeibers
Morace Dunkelberg
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