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“GOOD-NIGHT, LITTLE PARDNER.” Samantha in Europe by Josiah Allen’s Wife (Marietta Holley) Illustrated by C DeGrimm Printed in the United States New York · Funk and Wagnalls Company 1896 London a…
TRAINS OF RETROSPECTION. Twilight on the broad ocean! Smooth, wild waste of blue-gray waters stretchin’ out as fur as the eye could reach on every side. In the east a silvery moon hangin’ low and a s…
A HEATHEN MISSIONARY. Wall, I wuz a-settin’ in my clean settin’-room on a calm twilight, engaged in completin’ my preperations—in fact, I wuz jest a-puttin’ the finishin’ touches on one of Josiah’s n…
OFF INTO SIDE PATHS. Wall, the upshot of the matter wuz Al Faizi stayed right there for weeks. He seemed to have plenty of money, and I d’no what arrangement he and Josiah did make about his board, b…
SAMANTHA’S SWORD OF TRUTH AND JUSTICE. Wall, if you’ll believe it, it wuz the very next day I had a occasion to go to Jonesville for some necessaries; and Josiah wuz busy a-makin’ a new stanchil in t…
A HEATHEN’S STANDARD OF MORALITY. Wall, Al Faizi hearn this story about the contoggler’s sufferin’s and the doin’s of the B. I. L., and I never see him so riz up about anything as he wuz with that. S…
A LITTLE FUN AND ITS PRICE. Al Faizi got acquainted with the Baptist minister at Jonesville, and Elder Dean took to that noble heathen in a remarkable way. He wuz a truly Christian man and deep learn…
THE EMBARKATION. And so it wuz settled, and Martin bein’ writ to to git another ticket, he got it, and sent it in a letter to us. But what he would say when he see the passenger who wuz goin’ to use …
LANDING IN THE EMERALD ISLE. Wall, after all, as much as I wuz afraid of the deepness and length and breadth of the ocean, I had a pretty good time, after all. Somehow, I got to feelin’ that the ship…
A VISIT TO BLARNEY CASTLE. Anon we reached the old castle, for when anything gits to be six hundred years old you can well call it old. Why, I should call Josiah dretful old if he wuz over six hundre…
