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Marietta Holley. Samantha at Coney Island, and a Thousand Other Islands
Samantha at Coney Island, and a Thousand Other Islands
Table of Contents
ILLUSTRATIONS
CHAPTER ONE
IN WHICH THE CONEY ISLAND MICROBE ENTERS OUR QUIET HOME
CHAPTER TWO
We set sail for Thousand Island Park and have a real good time, but Josiah murmurs about Coney
CHAPTER THREE
We seek Quiet and Happiness in their beautiful hants and mingle with the pleasure seekers of Alexandria Bay
CHAPTER FOUR
We enjoy the hospitalities of Whitfield’s aunt’s boardin’-house at the Park, and my pardner goes a-fishin’
CHAPTER FIVE
Josiah’s imagination about his fishin’ exploits carries him to a pint where I have to rebuke him, which makes him dretful huffy
CHAPTER SIX
In which I draw the matrimonial line round my pardner and also keep my eye on Mr. Pomper
CHAPTER SEVEN
In which Josiah proposes to dance and Mr. Pomper makes an advance
CHAPTER EIGHT
In which Mr. Pomper declares his intenshuns an’ gives his views on matrimony
CHAPTER NINE
In which Mr. Pomper makes a offer of marriage and Faith has a wonderful experience
CHAPTER TEN
We Hear a Great Temperance Sermon, but Josiah Still Hankers for Coney Island
CHAPTER ELEVEN
In Which We Return Home, and I Perswaide Josiah to Build a Cottage for Tirzah Ann
CHAPTER TWELVE
In Which Josiah Still Works at His Plan for Tirzah Ann’s Cottage, and Decides to Send His Lumber C. O. W
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
In Which Josiah and Serenus Depart Sarahuptishusly for Coney Island and I Start in Pursuit
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
The Curious Sights I Seen An’ the Hair-Raisin’ Episodes I Underwent in My Agonizin’ Search for My Pardner
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
I Visit the Moon, the Witchin’ Waves, Open Air Circus, Advise the Monkeys, Make the Male Statute Laugh, but Do Not Find Josiah
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
The Wonderful and Mysterious Sights I Saw in Steeple Chase Park, and My Search There for My Pardner
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
In Which I Continue My Search for Josiah Through Dreamland, Huntin’ for Him in Vain, and Return to Bildad’s at Night, Weary and Despairin’
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
Josiah Found at Last! the Awful Fire at Dreamland and the Terrible Sights I Saw There
CHAPTER NINETEEN
We Return to Jonesville and Josiah Builds Tirzah Ann’s Cottage With Strange Inventions and Additions
CHAPTER TWENTY
Faith Comes to Visit Us. We Attend the Camp Meetin’ at Piller Pint, and Faith Meets the Lover of Her Youth
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Marietta Holley
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Mebby them walls didn’t stand so firm as the others did, and tottled more now and then. Strange, hain’t it, that solid bricks and stuns, that you feel and see, are less endurin’ and firm than the things you can’t see—changed lives, faith, hope, charity, love to God, good-will to man, and that whiter ideals and loftier aims and desires may tower up higher than any chimbly that ever belched out smoke.
Curious it is so, but so it is. But ’tennyrate this one son rode on his sleepin’ cars right into millions, and his first thought wuz how he could 48 please best the little Mother. So he built a castle for her. Tired little feet, walkin’ the round of humble duties, waitin’ on her small boys, did they ever expect to tread the walls of a castle? Her own too. I’ll bet it seemed dretful big to her, or would anyway if it hadn’t been so full, so runnin’ over full of the love and thoughtfulness of all of her boys—and Love will fill and glorify cottage or castle.
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