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Amy Lowell: Reaping

ReapingYou want to know what's the matter with me, do yer? My! ain't men blinder'n moles? It ain't nothin' new, be sure o' that. Why, ef you'd had eyes you'd ha' seed Me changin' under your…

Positively Last Appearance

Positively Last Appearance“Upon my word, I feel as if I lived in a powder-magazine, and don't know which barrel will explode next, and send me flying,” said Mrs Jo to herself next day, as she…

Amy Lowell: The Grocery

The Grocery"Hullo, Alice!" "Hullo, Leon!" "Say, Alice, gi' me a couple O' them two for five cigars, Will yer?" "Where's your nickel?" "My! Ain't you close! Can't trust a feller, can yer." "…

In the Willow

In the WillowThe old tree saw and heard a good many little scenes and confidences that summer, because it became the favorite retreat of all the children, and the willow seemed to enjoy it,…

Huckleberries

HuckleberriesThere was a great clashing of tin pails, much running to and fro, and frequent demands for something to eat, one August afternoon, for the boys were going huckleberrying, and…

Little Faithful

Little FaithfulFor a week the amount of virtue in the old house would have supplied the neighborhood. It was really amazing, for everyone seemed in a heavenly frame of mind, and self-denial…

Democratic National Convention Keynote Address

'Divide and Conquer' RepublicansA Letter From Forgotten People I got a letter last week from a young mother in Lorena, Texas, and I want to read a part of it to you. She writes, "Our…

The Picture of Dorian Gray: Chapter 2

by Oscar Wilde Chapter 1Chapter 3Chapter 2 As they entered they saw Dorian Gray. He was seated at the piano, with his back to them, turning over the pages of a volume of Schumann's "…