The Project Gutenberg eBook of Fresh Leaves
Title: Fresh Leaves
Author: Fanny Fern
Release date: March 18, 2014 [eBook #45172]
Most recently updated: October 24, 2024
Language: English
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FRESH LEAVES.
BY
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.
TO
GRACE ELDREDGE,
WITH
Her Mother’s Love.
PREFACE.
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;
Thirdly, I offer them my late fugitive pieces, which have often been requested, and which, with the other contents of this volume, I hope will cement still stronger our friendly relations.
FANNY FERN.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
|---|---|
| A Business Man’s Home; or, a Story for Husbands, | 9 |
| Visiting and Visitors, | 43 |
| Our First Nurse, | 47 |
| The Shadow of a Great Rock in a Weary Land, | 52 |
| To Literary Aspirants, | 53 |
| Summer Travel, | 56 |
| A Gentle Hint, | 59 |
| A Story for Old Husbands with Young Wives, | 59 |
| Breakfast at the Paxes, | 65 |
| Girls’ Boarding-Schools, | 68 |
| Closet Meditations, | 71 |
| Feminine View of Napoleon as a Husband, | 73 |
| “First Pure,” | 79 |
| Holiday Thoughts, | 82 |
| A Headache, | 85 |
| Has a Mother a Right to her Children? | 87 |
| “And ye shall call the Sabbath a Delight,” | 89 |
| “Come on, Macduff,” | 93 |
| Look Aloft, | 95 |
| Knickerbocker and Tri-Mountain, | 98 |
| The Boston Woman, | 100 |
| The New York Male, | 101 |
| The Boston Male, | 102 |
| My Old Inkstand and I, | 103 |
| The Soul and the Stomach, | 106 |
| Awe-ful Thoughts, | 107 |
| A Word to Parents and Teachers, | 108 |
| Lady Doctors, | 111 |
| The Cherub in the Omnibus, | 112 |
| Fanny Ford, | 114 |
| Moral Molasses, | 210 |
| A Word to Shopkeepers, | 212 |
| A Much-Needed Kind of Minister’s Wife, | 215 |
| Parent and Child, | 217 |
| Last Bachelor Hours of Tom Pax, | 220 |
| Tom Pax’s Conjugal Soliloquy, | 222 |
| Tea and Darning-Needles for Two, | 226 |
| A House without a Baby, | 232 |
| Glances at Philadelphia, No. 1, | 233 |
| Glances at Philadelphia, No. 2, | 237 |
| Glances at Philadelphia, No. 3, | 242 |
| Glances at Philadelphia, No. 4, | 246 |
| In the Dumps, | 249 |
| Peeps from under a Parasol, | 252 |
| The Confession Box, | 263 |
| A Word to Parents and Teachers, | 266 |
| Breakfast, | 268 |
| Greenwood and Mount Auburn, | 269 |
| Getting Up the Wrong Way, | 272 |
| A Hot Day, | 277 |
| Funeral Notes, | 278 |
| The “Favorite” Child, | 282 |
| A Question and its Answer, | 283 |
| Winter, | 284 |
| A Gauntlet for the Men, | 286 |
| Soliloquy of a Literary Housekeeper, | 289 |
| A Breakfast-Table Reverie, | 290 |
| A Glance at a Chameleon Subject, | 295 |
| Facts for Unjust Critics, | 297 |
| Try Again, | 301 |
| Fair Play, | 302 |
| To Gentlemen, | 305 |
| To the Ladies, | 307 |
| Matrimonial Advertisements, | 309 |
| A Sable Subject, | 310 |
| New York, | 313 |
| Airy Costumes, | 315 |
| A Peep at the Opera, | 317 |
| Hard Times, | 318 |
| Counter Irritation, | 321 |
| Sunday in Gotham, | 324 |
| Anniversary Time, | 327 |
| Wayside Words, | 330 |
| Charlotte Bronte, | 332 |