BOSTON:
JORDAN, SWIFT & WILEY.
1845.
CONTENTS.
| Introduction. By the English Editor | [5] |
| Abby's Year in Lowell | [21] |
| The First Wedding in Salmagundi | [28] |
| "Bless, and curse not" | [32] |
| Ancient Poetry | [33] |
| The Spirit of Discontent | [36] |
| The Whortleberry Excursion | [38] |
| The Western Antiquities | [43] |
| The Fig Tree | [45] |
| Village Pastors | [49] |
| The Sugar-Making Excursion | [61] |
| Prejudice against Labor | [65] |
| Joan of Arc | [73] |
| Susan Miller | [81] |
| Scenes on the Merrimac | [92] |
| The First Bells | [100] |
| Evening before Pay-Day | [108] |
| The Indian Pledge | [118] |
| The First Dish of Tea | [120] |
| Leisure Hours of the Mill Girls | [122] |
| The Tomb of Washington | [136] |
| Life among Farmers | [138] |
| A Weaver's Reverie | [147] |
| Our Duty to Strangers | [150] |
| Elder Isaac Townsend | [152] |
| Harriet Greenough | [153] |
| Fancy | [161] |
| The Widow's Son | [163] |
| Witchcraft | [167] |
| Cleaning Up | [170] |
| Visits to the Shakers | [172] |
| The Lock of Gray Hair | [178] |
| Lament of the little Hunchback | [183] |
| This World is not our Home | [185] |
| Dignity of Labor | [187] |
| The Village Chronicle | [188] |
| Ambition and Contentment | [197] |
| A Conversation on Physiology | [199] |
