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104 TRAILING OF GMRLS ; OR,
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XX.—TRAINING OF GIBLS; OH, THE VEXED
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» Iisr ages past, it was affirmed that "...
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she bustled about more than ever , and never spoke a word . It might have been about twelve o ' clock or so that same day ,
when playing at the door in the snow , I saw a man hurrying up the lane till he came within sight of the open door , when he
stopped all of a sudden , as if considering . Mother had seen him child also , and he's pushing come to tell aside us her of father wash- ' tub s death , said ! and hurriedl was y outside , — ' There the ,
, house as quick as lightning , and talking * to the man . I don't remember well what next happenedbut it seems to me that
, mother and I went off straight with the man , and walked a precious long way through the snow till we came to a church . There was
a crowd of people in the church , all talking and looking at something which was stretched on planks upon the floor . Mother gave
a scream , rushed between the people , and sat down sobbing upon the ground close up to a strange thing , "which at first I took for a
bundle of old clothes , but which I soon saw was the dead body of my fathersure enough . He had been frozen to death upon
a wild heath , we had crossed in coming to the church . He must have lain dead some time upon the snow , for when he was found
his face was mangled and bloody—the famished crows having icked out his right eye . Thus you seeMissI have reason to
think p that dreams sometimes foretell things , . " , April 10 th . —It is long since the old soldier has been here . I
fear my study from his head will not be completed . No tidings can I gain regarding him at his miserable lodgings in Oat Court ,
except that , on the temporary breaking up of the frost in January , he set off into the countrysaying that lie should be away for a
, few days , but as yet he has not returned . The bitter cold of Pebruary , and the cheerless biting east winds of this ungenial spring ,
have most probably extinguished the flickering flame of his feeble old . life . It is well to believe that at length the aged wanderer has
entered in to his new life , and to picture his new-born spirit , so restless upon the earthreleased from its feeble fleshly bondsand
commencing a nobler and , more wondrous pilgrimage through , the
boundless plains of eternity .
104 Trailing Of Gmrls ; Or,
104 _TRAILING OF _GMRLS ; OR ,
Xx.—Training Of Gibls; Oh, The Vexed
XX . _—TRAINING OF GIBLS ; OH , THE VEXED PROBLEM .
» Iisr Ages Past, It Was Affirmed That "...
» _Iisr ages past , it was affirmed that " there was no new thing under the sun ; " and even in our advanced days , we may safely say the
same . The world lias seen reformers in the shape of women before now , and again they are to be met in various directions , flinging
aside their robes of vanity , and putting on . the sober garments of
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1862, page 104, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041862/page/32/
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