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New-Year's Day
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A young man borrows money from his intended fiance's father and, after the stock market collapses, is estranged from her and family. Unbeknownst to the other, he works to repay her father, and she remains true to her love for him.
An Auction Sale
The narrator describes two auctions in which she took part, and reflects on friendship, buying, and selling.
Look Before You Leap
A mother tells her daughters the story of a young woman who decided to marry an older man of whom she was fond but not passionately in love.
Berkeley Jail
The narrator recounts the story of the Vassal family, whose only surviving member and an old family servant rescue a Native American man, held for the murder of a local white property owner.
Nine Years Since
A mother tells a story about her friend to help revise her daughters’ conception of the label “old maid.”
An Incident at Rome
The narrator, traveling in Italy, meets an English lady, who recounts the story of Mrs. Bathurst and her son Murray, a young antiquarian who goes mad while conducting research in Rome. He is eventually reunited with his mother and restored to sanity.…
A Sketch of a Blue Stocking
A famous woman writer visits a family and challenges their various assumptions about literary women and blue-stockings.
Mary Dyre
An account of the persecution and execution of New England Quaker Mary Dyre by the Pilgrims in the 1660s.
Dogs
After an older brother tells his younger siblings all about an extraordinary dog he encountered in New York City, his mother criticizes animal cruelty and reminds them of the fidelity and goodness of dogs.