Fresh Leaves
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FANNY FERN.
NEW YORK: MASON BROTHERS. 1857.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by MASON BROTHERS, In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court, for the Southern District of New York.
STEREOTYPED BY THOMAS B. SMITH, 82 & 84 Beekman-st., N. Y.
PRINTED BY C. A. ALVORD, 15 Vandewater-st., N. Y.
GRACE ELDREDGE,
WITH
Her Mother’s Love.
Every writer has his parish. To mine, I need offer no apology for presenting,
First, a new story which has never before appeared in print;
Secondly, the “hundred-dollar-a-column story,” respecting the remuneration of which, skeptical paragraphists have afforded me so much amusement. (N. B.—My banker and I can afford to laugh!) This story having been published when “The New York Ledger” was in the dawn of its present unprecedented circulation, and never having appeared elsewhere, will, of course, be new to many of my readers;
Fanny Fern
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FRESH LEAVES.
PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
VISITING AND VISITORS.
OUR FIRST NURSE.
THE SHADOW OF A GREAT ROCK IN A WEARY LAND.
TO LITERARY ASPIRANTS.
SUMMER TRAVEL.
A GENTLE HINT.
A STORY FOR OLD HUSBANDS WITH YOUNG WIVES.
BREAKFAST AT THE PAXES’.
GIRLS’ BOARDING-SCHOOLS.
A FEMININE VIEW OF NAPOLEON AS A HUSBAND.
“FIRST PURE.”
HOLIDAY THOUGHTS.
A HEADACHE.
HAS A MOTHER A RIGHT TO HER CHILDREN?
“AND YE SHALL CALL THE SABBATH A DELIGHT.”
“COME ON, MACDUFF.”
LOOK ALOFT.
KNICKERBOCKER AND TRI-MOUNTAIN.
THE BOSTON WOMAN.
THE NEW YORK MALE.
THE BOSTON MALE.
THE SOUL—AND THE STOMACH.
AWE-FUL THOUGHTS.
A WORD TO PARENTS AND TEACHERS.
LADY DOCTORS.
THE CHERUB IN THE OMNIBUS.
FANNY FORD.
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX.
CHAPTER X.
CHAPTER XI.
CHAPTER XII.
CHAPTER XIII.
CHAPTER XIV.
CHAPTER XV.
CHAPTER XVI.
CHAPTER XVII.
CHAPTER XVIII.
CHAPTER XIX.
CHAPTER XX.
CHAPTER XXI.
CHAPTER XXII.
A WORD TO SHOP-KEEPERS.
THE LAST BACHELOR HOURS OF TOM PAX.
TOM PAX’S CONJUGAL SOLILOQUY.
TEA AND DARNING NEEDLES “FOR TWO!”
A HOUSE WITHOUT A BABY.
IN THE DUMPS.
PEEPS FROM UNDER A PARASOL.
THE CONFESSION BOX.
A WORD TO PARENTS AND TEACHERS.
BREAKFAST.
GREENWOOD AND MOUNT AUBURN.
GETTING UP THE WRONG WAY.
A HOT DAY.
FUNERAL NOTES.
THE “FAVORITE” CHILD.
A QUESTION, AND ITS ANSWER.
WINTER.
A GAUNTLET FOR THE MEN.
SOLILOQUY OF A LITERARY HOUSEKEEPER.
A BREAKFAST-TABLE REVERIE.
A GLANCE AT A CHAMELEON SUBJECT.
FACTS FOR UNJUST CRITICS.
TRY AGAIN.
MATRIMONIAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
A SABLE SUBJECT.
NEW YORK.
AIRY COSTUMES.
A PEEP AT THE OPERA.
HARD TIMES.
COUNTER IRRITATION.
SUNDAY IN GOTHAM.
WAYSIDE WORDS.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE.
