Mrs. Stowe’s Writings. _LITTLE FOXES._ One Volume. _HOUSE AND HOME PAPERS._ One Volume. _THE PEARL OF ORR’S ISLAND._ One Volume. _AGNES OF SORRENTO._ One Volume. _UNCLE TOM’S CABIN._ One Volume. _THE MINISTER’S WOOING._ One Volume. _OLDTOWN FOLKS._ One Volume. James R. Osgood, & Co., Publishers. LITTLE FOXES. BY CHRISTOPHER CROWFIELD, AUTHOR OF “HOUSE AND HOME PAPERS.” [Illustration] BOSTON: JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY, LATE TICKNOR & FIELDS, AND FIELDS, OSGOOD, & CO. 1875. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by HARRIET BEECHER STOWE, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts UNIVERSITY PRESS: WELCH, BIGELOW, & CO., CAMBRIDGE. CONTENTS. PAGE I. FAULT-FINDING 7 II. IRRITABILITY 53 III. REPRESSION 91 IV. PERSISTENCE 133 V. INTOLERANCE 176 VI. DISCOURTESY 218 VII. EXACTINGNESS 249 LITTLE FOXES. I. FAULT-FINDING. “Papa, what are you going to give us this winter for our evening readings?” said Jennie. “I am thinking, for one thing,” I replied, “of preaching a course of household sermons from a very odd text prefixed to a discourse which I found at the bottom of the pamphlet-barrel in the garret.” “Don’t say sermon, Papa,--it has such a dreadful sound; and on winter evenings one wants something entertaining.” “Well, treatise, then,” said I, “or discourse, or essay, or prelection; I’m not particular as to words.” “But what is the queer text that you found at the bottom of the pamphlet-barrel?”