Author: Anonymous

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13: 9781230453002

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 edition. Excerpt: ...n't endure tobacco, liked Miss Warner's novels and Tupper's poems, attended a Bibleclass on Sunday afternoons, and was publicly snubbed and depreciated by his mother--it being, indeed, that excellent matron's custom to treat him as though he were a natural fool upon all occasions. She'd tell him, when in conversation with others, to hold his tongue, aud not to expose himself. She would narrate particulars of his entertaining hopeless passions for a scries of young ladies, and generally indulge in confidences caleulated to make a listener get hot and uncomfortable--when in presence of their hero. Her second-born was in California. No. 3 camo home but seldom, being employed as a governess in an up-town family. No. 4 was a very pretty girl of fifteen, with soft, bright eyes, and curling hair, and of a most lively but variable temperament. Her mother had a trick of discovering entirely imaginary attachments on the part of young-gentlemen for this daughter, and warmly abetting or indignantly repelling them. No. 6 (the youngest of the family) was a singular youth, whe nourished wild ideas about constructing an omnibus, using cats or goats as a" propulsive power, and making a large fortune on Broadway by devoting his vehicle to the accommodation of fashionable youth. With which view he haunted lumber-yards, soliciting contributory bits of wood from the proprietors, and, also, set traps of clothes' lines and balls of twine in the back-yard, to secure the necessary quadrupeds. When the family met together, a great deal of kissing always took place. They were very affectionate. You could n't spend an evening in their company witheut witnessing at least two or three osculatory performances. Mrs. would set them at it on the smallest provocation...