Josiah Allen's Wife as a P. A. and P. I.: Samantha at the Centennial.: Designed As a Bright and Shining Light, to Pierce the Fogs of Error and Injustice That Surround Society and Josiah, and to Bring More Clearly to View the Path That Leads Straight on to Virtue and Happiness.Holley, Marietta
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Josiah Allen's Wife as a P. A. and P. I.: Samantha at the Centennial.: Designed As a Bright and Shining Light, to Pierce the Fogs of Error and Injustice That Surround Society and Josiah, and to Bring More Clearly to View the Path That Leads Straight on to Virtue and Happiness.
Holley, Marietta
Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) -- Fiction; Conduct of life -- Fiction; Debates and debating -- Fiction; Humorous stories; Husband and wife -- Fiction; Women's rights -- Fiction
65. EXTRAVAGANT WIMMEN 351
66. FRUGAL MEN 352
67. THE DEACON’S OLD GAME 355
68. HELPIN’ THE WIDDER 360
69. “I HAINT A MORMON” 367
70. “BUY A GUIDE?” (FULL PAGE) 379
71. SAMANTHA ADDRESSES GEN. GRANT 400
72. INTERVIEW WITH GOV. HAWLEY, (FULL PAGE) 407
73. ONE OF THE SMITHS (FULL PAGE) 418
74. JOSIAH’S FIVE HOURS NAP 422
75. INTRODUCED TO JOHN ROGERS JR. 432
76. THE CHINESE DEPARTMENT, (FULL PAGE) 441
77. JOSIAH IN THE DRESSIN’-ROOM 458
78. POLITENESS TO A STRANGER 461
79. THE PHANTOM 467
80. SAMANTHA IN THE ART GALLERY, (FULL PAGE) 477
81. SAMANTHA MEETS DOM PEDRO 491
82. IN TROUBLE 505
83. JOSIAH ADMIRIN’ THE WATER 539
84. A SHORT ROLL 548
85. THE SENTINAL LICENSED 551
86. BRINGIN’ HER TO 563
87. JUDGE SNOW’S SURPRISE, (FULL PAGE) 573
88. UNDER THE MAPLES 579
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THE JONESVILLE DEBATIN’-SCHOOL.
It was to the Jonesville Debatin’-School, that we first thought on’t. It
was there that Josiah and me made up our 2 minds to go to Filadelfy
village to see the Sentinal. They’ve had Debatin’-schools to Jonesville
this winter, and as I was the only literary woman worth mentionin’, they
made a great pint of havin’ me attend to ’em. I say the only literary
woman,—Betsey Bobbet Slimpsey havin’ to work out so much that she has
entirely left off writin’ poetry. She says she can’t go out washin’, and
cleanin’ house, and makin’ soap, and write poetry at the same time,
worth a cent. They have a awful hard time to git along. They both work
out by the day, and they say that she has had to sell her tow frizzles
and corneleun ring, and lots of her other nice things that she had to
catch her husband with, in order to git along. Howsumever, I don’t
_know_ this; you can hear _anything_, such a lyin’ time, now-a-days—as I
told Josiah, the other day. He says to me, says he:
“I won’t believe _anything_, Samantha, till I see it with my own eyes.”
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