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170 LADIES * lilFE IN"SHETJ^OED.
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You Want To Know How We Ladies Manage To...
or the doctor ' s daughter . Oh ! if you are charitably and ! reliiously inclined—with the influence your father or brother ' s
nam g e can give—you will find a vast garden run to seed , and thirsting for such tending * as you can lend . You are a
Christian lady , and you wish to help the poor and unaided of your fellow-creatures . _Nowhere in the world is there such a
want of labourers for the vineyard ; no where is the real lady so appreciated and respected as in Shetland . The poor of those
islands are a most intelligent and even educated class , compared with their equals in England and Scotland . The few hooks to
which they have access are greedily devoured , and no gift is more acceptable than a little hymn book or religious story . I
remember a friend of mine giving a pair of boots to a young such man to b repair profession ; when ) broug the job ht home was done the , boots and the and cobbler was asked ( not
what his y charge woul , d be , he replied , " If you please , sir , all I was would barter ask would of a be a reading sortwith of Lord a Byron's . poems I als . o " knew Her a e
irlthe dauhter queer of a , widow vengeance in humble circumstances who g , has taug g ht herself poor to crochetto work on muslinto
compose verses , and draw from _Nature , . She is a beautiful , girl tooand a modestgentlevirtuous maiden ; quite a case of an
" " Lord Ellen , , Burlei the hamlet h " , that ' s pride ever , owned / ' and a a fair statel mate hall for . " the best g y
Another girl I knew—she died , poor thing , in the bloom of her youth—who composed some beautiful music , and sang as
many a ball-room beauty would give a year ' s conquests to rival Shakspeare . She was at her well finger read in ends all the ; while poets , had Scott Long ' s Novels fellow and and
_Addison's History were her favourite study . These are not solitary instances ; I could mention dozens . Minds there are _,,
among those simple islanders , longing for knowledge , and yearning for divine truths to be told themand no one to sow
the precious seed . What a field for the Christian , lady to work in I "What a _harvest for her reaping ! What jewels to deck her
immortal crown ! jewels strewn among the grey old rocks of Ultima Thule , and only awaiting a hand to gather them .
But I weary you . Just a few minutes more . One round of the crochet yet , and then I'll have done .
You think we have no amusements in Shetland . That , like _< blubber the Esquimaux during , the we sleep remaining nine months three months and gorge . Wh ourselves ywe have with
our picnics in as good style as you can have . We pack , up our baskets morningand we start in
on some sunny summer , u boats of Noroway deal" for a day ' s- excursion among little
lonely broad islets Scotland and . giant We ro ladies cks that can have handle ilot oars their , and match we in hav all e
170 Ladies * Lilfe In"Shetj^Oed.
170 LADIES * lilFE IN " SHETJ _^ _OED .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 2, 1864, page 170, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02051864/page/26/
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