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Dates: during 1870-1879
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This tasty little volume consists of seven short stories. They are not likely to keep one awake nights with excitement, but are, nevertheless, very entertaining, being (for the most part) quiet rural tales, written in an easy, "chatty" fashion, the pages of which contain many a charming glimpse of home-life. Indeed, the authoress possesses a remarkable faculty of sketching upon the page the pleasant characteristics of New England life, and the stories are the more interesting for the degree to which they appeal to one's own experience. In point of literary workmanship, the tales vary to some extent...
...ONE hundred and twenty Freshmen went to see the Black Crook last Monday evening...
...THIRTY-ONE gentlemen have signified their willingness to join a Chess Club. The club will not be formed unless thirty-five members can be obtained...
Miss Flyrte. - Why, of course. I know you won't be cross. And mayn't I wait till one o'clock, so we can have a real, nice, long talk? Say yes, like a dear...
...College press has so frequently censured the practice of stamping at Memorial when a stranger fails to remove his hat, that any further arguments on this head would be tedious. No one who wishes to be considered a gentleman should join in such an exhibition of childish ill manners. Any stranger who should be the recipient of such an outbreak would regard the boarders at the Hall as absolutely devoid of politeness. It is to be hoped that yesterday's disorder will not be repeated...