Chapter V: Letter XVIII

Notes Credits

OLDTOWN FIRESIDE STORIES. By Harriet Beecher Stowe.

CONTENTS

THE GHOST IN THE MILL

THE SULLIVAN LOOKING-GLASS.

THE MINISTER'S HOUSEKEEPER.

THE WIDOW'S BANDBOX.

CAPTAIN KIDD'S MONEY.

�MIS' ELDERKIN'S PITCHER.�

THE GHOST IN THE CAP'N BROWNHOUSE.

ILLUSTRATIONS

Titlepage

Frontispiece

The Ghost in the Mill, Page 001

Old Cack Knew Him Too, Page 020

Tailpiece, Page 024

The Sullivan Looking-glass, Page 025

Tailpiece, Page 052

The Minister's Housekeeper, Page 053

Huldy Came Behind Chokin' With Laugh, Page 065

I've Thrown the Pig in The Well, Page 070

Tailpiece, Page 078

The Widow's Bandbox, Page 079

Tailpiece, Page 102

Captain Kidd's Money, Page 108

They Dug Down About Five Feet, Page 119

Mis' Elderkin's Pitcher, Page 122

Ghost in Cap'n Brown House, Page 139

Stood There Lookin' Right at Cinthy, Page 149

HOUSEHOLD PAPERS AND STORIES By Harriet Beecher Stowe 1868

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INTRODUCTORY NOTE 1 II. Homekeeping vs. Housekeeping 33 IV. The Economy of the Beautiful 69 VI. The Lady who does her own Work 101 VIII. Economy 133 X. Cookery 182 XII. Home Religion 231 II. Woman�s Sphere 274 IV. Is Woman a Worker? 316 VI. Bodily Religion: A Sermon on Good Health 347 VIII. How shall we be Amused? 374 X. What are the Sources of Beauty in Dress? 412 XII. The New Year 438

OUR SECOND GIRL 473

THE PEARL OF ORR'S ISLAND A Story of the Coast of Maine By Harriet Beecher Stowe 1896

CONTENTS Introductory Note CHAPTER I. Naomi 1 II. Mara 5 III. The Baptism and the Burial 9 IV. Aunt Roxy and Aunt Ruey 15 V. The Kittridges 25 VI. Grandparents 36 VII. From the Sea 47 VIII. The Seen and the Unseen 58 IX. Moses 74 X. The Minister 85 XI. Little Adventurers 99 XII. Sea Tales 110 XIII. Boy and Girl 120 XIV. The Enchanted Island 132 XV. The Home Coming 143 XVI. The Natural and the Spiritual 154 XVII. Lessons 165 XVIII. Sally 175 XIX. Eighteen 179 XX. Rebellion 186 XXI. The Tempter 198 XXII. A Friend in Need 208 XXIII. The Beginning of the Story 218 XXIV. Desires and Dreams 229 XXV. Miss Emily 235 XXVI. Dolores 245 XXVII. Hidden Things 258 XXVIII. A Coquette 270 XXIX. Night Talks 279 XXX. The Launch of the Ariel 290 XXXI. Greek meets Greek 303 XXXII. The Betrothal 315 XXXIII. At a Quilting 323 XXXIV. Friends 329 XXXV. The Toothacre Cottage 335 XXXVI. The Shadow of Death 339 XXXVII. The Victory 351 XXXVIII. Open Vision 358 XXXIX. The Land of Beulah 368 XL. The Meeting 376 XLI. Consolation 380 XLII. Last Words 387 XLIII. The Pearl 393 XLIV. Four Years After 398

PALMETTO-LEAVES By Harriet Beecher Stowe 1873

CONTENTS. PAGE. Nobody's Dog 1 A Flowery January in Florida 16 The Wrong Side of the Tapestry 26 A Letter To the Girls 40 A Water-coach, and a Ride in It 53 Picnicking up Julington 69 Magnolia 87 Yellow Jessamines 97 "Florida for Invalids" 116 Swamps and Orange-Trees 137 Letter-Writing 148 Magnolia Week 161 Buying Land in Florida 175 Our Experience in Crops 185 May in Florida 196 St. Augustine 206 Our Neighbor Over the Way 225 The Grand Tour up River 247 Old Cudjo and the Angel 267 The Laborers of the South 279 Map of the St. John River

MAP OF THE ST. JOHN RIVER, FLORIDA. The Savannah Steamer

SALEM WITCHCRAFT THE PLANCHETTE MYSTERY AND MODERN SPIRITUALISM By Harriet Beecher Stowe CONTENTS. PAGE The Place 7 The Salemite of Forty Years Ago 8 How the Subject was opened 9 Careful Historiography 10 The Actors in the Tragedy 12 Philosophy of the Delusion 12 Character of the Early Settlement 13 First Causes 15 Death of the Patriarch 16 Growth of Witchcraft 17 Trouble in the Church 18 Rev. Mr. Burroughs 19 Deodat Lawson 20 Parris�a Malignant 20 A Protean Devil 21 State of Physiology 22 William Penn as a Precedent 22 Phenomena of Witchcraft 23 Parris and his Circle 25 The Inquisitions�Sarah Good 26 A Child Witch 27 The Towne Sisters 28 Depositions of Parris and his Tools 31 Goody Nurse�s Excommunication 35 Mary Easty 36 Mrs. Cloyse 38 The Proctor Family 40 The Jacobs Family 41 Giles and Martha Corey 42 Decline of the Delusion 44 The Physio-Psychological Causes of the Trouble 45 The Last of Parris 47 �One of the Afflicted��Her Confession 49 The Transition 50 The Fetish Theory Then and Now 51 The Views of Modern Investigators 53 Importance of the Subject 55

CONTENTS OF THE PLANCHETTE MYSTERY. What Planchette is and does (with review of Facts and Phenomena) 63 The Press on Planchette (with further details of Phenomena) 67 Theory First�That the Board is moved by the hands that rest upon it 70 Theory Second��It is Electricity or Magnetism� 71 Proof that Electricity has nothing to do with it 78 Theory Third�The Devil Theory 79 Theory of a Floating Ambient Mentality 81 �To Daimonion��The Demon 83 �It is some principle of nature as yet unknown� 85 Theory of the Agency of Departed Spirits 85 Planchette�s own Theory 89 The Rational Difficulty 92 The Medium�The Doctrine of Spheres 93 The Moral and Religious Difficulty 98 What this Modern Development is, and what is to come of it 102 Conclusion 105 How to work Planchette 106

SPIRITUALISM. History of Spiritualism 107 Scriptural Views 110 Communion of Saints 112

DR. DODDRIDGE�S DREAM.

Pages 123-125

MEN OF OUR TIMES; OR LEADING PATRIOTS OF THE DAY LINCOLN, GRANT, GARRISON, SUMNER, CHASE, WILSON, GREELEY, FARRAGUT, ANDREW, COLFAX, STANTON, DOUGLASS, BUCKINGHAM, SHERMAN, SHERIDAN, HOWARD, PHILLIPS AND BEECHER. By Harriet Beecher Stowe 1868

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE. 1. President Lincoln, FRONTISPIECE. 2. Gen. U. S. Grant, 111 3. William L. Garrison, 154 4. Charles Sumner, 214 5. Salmon P. Chase, 241 6. Henry Wilson, 269 7. Horace Greeley, 293 8. Com. D. G. Farragut, 311 9. Gov. John A. Andrew, 325 10. Schuyler Colfax, 347 11. E. M. Stanton, 363 12. Frederick Douglass, 380 13. Gen. P. H. Sheridan, 405 14. Gen. W. T. Sherman, 423 15. Gen. Oliver O. Howard, 447 16. Gov. Wm. A. Buckingham, 463 17. Wendell Phillips, 483 18. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, 505

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