Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 227
old McGuffey readers.For it was a piece of rare good fortune for agirl, who was afterward to become a writer her-self, that in her part of the State of Indiana,the precept Thou shalt not speak ungram-matically, was almost as sacred as one of theCommandments. In almost all cases, it is true that the… … MRS. JOHNSTON AND MATILDA. her father, a Methodist minister (who had diedwhen she was a child of two). It includedPilgrims Progress, but also such works asFoxs Book of Martyrs, and others even moredepressing. The lighter literature was bought, bor- rowed, or smuggled in from the neighbors; TheWide,…
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