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Shillaber, B. P. (1814-1890)
  
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PREFACE.
  
CONTENTS.

  
THE GUARDIAN FOR IKE.
  
AUTUMN.
  
TWENTY YEARS MARRIED.
  
WHOLE-SOULED FELLOWS.
  
BEHIND THE SCENES.
  
WOMAN'S SOVEREIGNTY.
  
PETS.
  
BY CHANCE.
  
MRS. PARTINGTON AND THE RUSSIAN HELMET.
  
WHO IS VILE?
  
THE HOUSEHOLD GHOST.
  
MRS. PARTINGTON PATRIOTIC.
  
WEANING THE BABY.
  
HOME MUSIC.
  
MRS. PARTINGTON AT THE BALLET.
  
FLOWERS.
  
INVOLUNTARY.
  
SIGNS OF FALL.
  
IKE'S SPRING MEDICINE.
  
PARTING.
  
ASSIMILATION.
  
COMPARISON.
  
MALAPROPOS.
  
MRS. PARTINGTON ON SURPRISE PARTIES.
  
INDIVIDUALITY.
  
MISAPPREHENSION.
  
HOME MUSIC.
  
HARVEST HYMN.
  
MRS. PARTINGTON ON HORTICULTURE.
  
A BIT OF NONSENSE.
  
CHARACTER.
  
SELF-RESPECT.
  
LOVE.
  
FRENCHMAN'S LANE.
  
THE FIRST SUIT.
  
MORAL TENDENCY.
  
SYMPATHY WITH RASCALS.
  
ORGANIC.
  
SCRATCHING FOR A LIVING.
  
ODORLESS ROSES.
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THE PRITCHARD HEIRS.
  
DON'T FRET.
  
THE DICKY.
  
HEATHENISH.
  
BRINGING UP CHILDREN.
  
UNMET CONFIDENCE.
  
THE DEAD SAILOR.
  
THE COOLIES.
  
TALKING HORSE.
  
PICTURES.
  
THE OCEAN.
  
FATALITY.
  
A SERIOUS CALL.
  
THE BARON OF BOSTON.
  
SWEARING.
  
THE PRIMA DONNA.
  
MISANTHROPY.
  
MEASURING LOVE.
  
PLEBEIAN PRETENSION.
  
THE FRANKLIN STATUE.
  
A WAY TO BE HAPPY.
  
NEW ENGLAND'S LION.
  
UNNATURAL FATHERS.
  
A DIFFICULTY.
  
LOVE.
  
HEIR-LOOMS.
  
DON'T LOOK BACK.
  
GOOD RESOLUTIONS.
  
MRS. PARTINGTON ON MUSIC.
  
SACRILEGIOUS.
  
AN OLD FABLE MODERNIZED.
  
ROBERT BURNS.
  
THE KNOCKING AT THE GATE.
  
MRS. PARTINGTON AND IKE.
  
COLD WEATHER.
  
AN ANALOGY.
  
NAHANT.
  
NUMBER ONE HUNDRED AND ONE.
  
CONTENTMENT.
  
THE OLD PIANO.
  
IKE AT CHURCH.
  
SOUNDS OF THE SUMMER NIGHT.
  
THE HOUSEHOLD SHADOW.
  
CHARACTER.
  
A LEAF FROM A RECORD.
  
THE CABLE.
  
A PLEASANT STORY FOR JEALOUS PEOPLE.
  
A COURTING REMINISCENCE.
  
FIDGETY PEOPLE.
  
THE PHILISTINES BE UPON THEE.
  
MRS. PARTINGTON ON INTEMPERANCE.
  
MRS. PARTINGTON AND THE TELEGRAPH.
  
GREAT AND LITTLE STRUGGLES.
  
DIED OF CRAMP.
  
COSMETICS.
  
A TALE WITH A MORAL
  
ELECTRO-CHEMICAL BATHS.
  
TRUE COURAGE.
  
MY GRANDMOTHER.
  
THE MILL-BROOK.
  
DAMAGED GOODS.
  
THE SPIRIT OF SEVENTY-SIX.
  
IKE PARTINGTON AND PUGILISM.
  
THE OLD SOUTH BELL.
  
THE FALSES.
  
HARD TIMES.
  
A NIGHT OFF POINT JUDITH.
  
LETTER WRITING.
  
SYMPATHY.
  
SEA-AIR.
  
AN ODD FELLOW 'S FUNERAL.
  
THE COURTS.
  
SICK OF IT.
  
LOOK UP.
  
A DOMESTIC STORY.
  
AN INNER SHRINE.
  
CONSTANT DROPPING WEARS.
  
EMULATION.
  
PARTINGTONIAN WISDOM.
  
A CUP OF TEA.
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CHRISTMAS HEARTHS AND HEARTS.
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CHAPTER I.
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CHAPTER II. THE MERCHANT'S HOME.
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CHAPTER III. THE GLOOMY CHRISTMAS.
 4. 
CHAPTER IV. BUSINESS — AID — EFFORT — MYSTERY.
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CHAPTER V. CHRISTMAS PRESENTS — A DISCOVERY.
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CHAPTER VI. THE CONCLUSION, IN WHICH HAPPENS:
  
HIGHER.
  
REVERIES.
  
OLD AND YOUNG.
  
THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW.
  
THE MODEL HUSBAND.
  
SONNET TO PAN.
  
ILLUSTRATIVE PANTOMIME.
  
ON THE MISSISSIPPI.
  
MRS. PARTINGTON AT SARATOGA.
  
A PICTURE.
  
JOB A DRUMMER.
  
A SLIGHT MISCONCEPTION.
  
STORY OF FRAZER 'S RIVER:
  
HABITS.
  
CHECKERS.
  
GRAMMAR.
  
FEELING.
  
AN IMPOSTOR.
  
MESMERISM AND MATRIMONY;
  
THE OLD NORTH MILL-POND.
  
THE TRUE PHILOSOPHY.
  
A CLASSIC.
  
BE CONTENTED.
  
WHIST.
  
TO A HEEL-TAP.
  
OYSTERS.
  
CALIFORNIA TAN.
  
A GOUTY MAN'S REVERIE.
  
IKE AND LION.
  
ON A CHILD'S PICTURE.
  
WEARING ORNAMENTS.
  
OPERATIC.
  
A NARROW ESCAPE.
  
THE WORLD.
  
NIAGARA FALLS.
  
BALLAD ABOUT BUNKER.
  
ATTENDING THE ANNIVERSARIES.
  
THE COUNTRY RIDE.
  
LIFE'S MASQUERADE.
  
MRS. PARTINGTON PHILOSOPHIZING.
  
LUCK.
  
ON SUCH A NIGHT AS THIS.
  
THE REASON.
  
THE BANKER'S DREAM.
  
SEA-SICKNESS.
  
HOW CURIOUS IT IS!
  
EARTH SPEAKETH TO EARTH.
  
WITHOUT A SPECK.
  
FORCED OBEDIENCE.
  
A LIFE'S FORTUNES.
  
MOUNT WASHINGTON.
  
ALBUMINOUS.
  
PARTED TIES.
  
UNCONDITIONAL CHEERFULNESS.
  
MRS. PARTINGTON GROWS DESULTORY.
  
EMBLEMATIC.
  
A NIGHT OF IT.
  
THE PREACHER AND THE CHILDREN.
  
OUT WEST.
  
CONSCIENCE.
  
BABIES.
  
AGRICULTURAL.
  
MRS. PARTINGTON AND PATENT MEDICINES.
  
SONG OF CHELSEA FERRY.
  
MR. BLIFKINS' BABY.
  
PATIENCE.
  
IKE'S COMPOSITIONS IN SCHOOL.
  
MRS. SLED PUT OUT.
  
TALE OF A HORSE.
  
MRS. PARTINGTON ON THE CURRENCY.
  
A FOURTH OF JULY INCIDENT.
  
SCRATCHED GNEISS AND BEAR SKIN.
  
WATERING-PLACES.
  
HEZEKIAH AND RUTH.
  
BURGLARS IN THE PARTINGTON MANSION.
  
A TEXT APPLIED.
  
JUSTLY CRITICAL.
  
STARRY.
  
BIRTH-DAY OF LAFAYETTE.
  
CROAKING.
  
HEATHEN SYMPATHY.
  
WHITEWASHING.
  
PROSPECTIVE SUMMER.

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KNITTING-WORK:
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WEB OF MANY TEXTURES,

WROUGHT BY RUTH PARTINGTON, (B. P. SHILLABER.) “Various, that the mind of desultory man, studious of change, and pleased with novelty, may be indulged.”
BOSTON:
BROWN, TAGGARD & CHASE.
NEW YORK: SHELDON & COMPANY.
PHILADELPHIA: J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.
© 1859.
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