PREFACE.

Yours Truly,

FANNY FERN.

CONTENTS.

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[Discourse upon Husbands]11
[Grandmother's Chat about Children]33
[Women and their Discontents]50
[Women and some of their Mistakes]68
[Notes upon Preachers and Preaching]88
[Bridget as she was, and Bridget as she is]103
[A Chapter on Tobacco]118
[Give the Convicts a Chance]127
[A Glance at Washington]133
[Glimpses of Camp Life]142
[Unwritten History of the War]151
[My Summers in New England]163
[Boston and New York]182
[Some things in New York]188
[Working Girls of New York]219
[Washing the Baby]230
[Children have their Rights]232
[Mourning]240
[To Young Girls]244
[A Little Talk with the Other Sex]253
[A Chapter on Men]269
[Literary People]274
[Some Varieties of Women]280
[Mistakes about our Children]295
[Thoughts of Some Every Day Topics]312
[A Trip to the Northern Lakes]328

FOLLY AS IT FLIES.