Murray’s Reader,137
Naturalization, etc.,110
New England pronunciation,144
New England superstition, of old,160
Novelist, English, his surprise,9
Nutting, etc.,14
Old-fashioned hospitality in beverages,109
“Old Grouse,” story of,146
Old Peddlers,67
Old Woman, fright of,100
Orders in Council, British,108
Organ of St. Paul’s,118
Origin of “Hinx-Minx,”174
Our Town,5
Paine, Robert Treat,134
Parson, Capen,178
Parsonage and its curious picture,52
Parsons, Chief Justice,134
Particular Shoemaker,48
242Peabody, George,33
Peace of 1783,99
Peddlers, old,67
People of St. James’s,131
Perkins, Jacob,25
Personal part of leading citizens in politics,94
Persons, distinguished,34
Picture, curious,52
Pike, Nicholas,25
Polemics,132
Political hostilities,55
Poultry in profusion,67
Practice, modern, of naturalization,110
Professional persons, etc.,83
“Project,” what it is,174
Putnam, Oliver,33
Quaker meeting,136
Queer contrast of language,61
Railways and their influence,142
Ramsay, Dean, and others, Reminiscences of,10
Reader, Murray’s English,137
Reading parties,142
Refinement of certain classes,133
Reputed apparition,192
Respect for the clergy,29
“Retort courteous,”27
Rev. Dr. Dana,128
Rev. Mr. Milton,124
Rev. Dr. Morse,131
Rev. Mr. Murray,122
Rev. Dr. Spring,29
Richard, Uncle,162
243
Sabbath, how kept,120
Sailing adventure,7
“Salt,” ancient,3
Saturday and Sunday evenings,30
Scenery on the river,5
School books, etc.,137
Schoolmaster, a shrewd,140
Scott’s Autobiography,10
Scott’s reply to certain critics,159
Scottish domestic, cool and faithful,104
“Scrupulous” congregation,122
Scrupulous shoemaker,48
Severe winters,1
Shipbuilding, etc.,5
Silver Greys,56
Singular companion,168
Singular night adventure,87
Snow-storm in old times,2
Social security,85
Stage-house,53
St. James’s,143
Story of an apparition,179
Story of bold youngster,165
Stove in Church,118
Street fights of boys,10
Striking adventure of Rufus King,135
Surprise of Thackeray,9
Swett and Schwedt,30
Swindling failure,103
Sympathetic young lady,17
Tennyson’s “Charge at Balaklava,”28
Text instead of sermon,119
“Thanks be to Praise!,”202
244Thanksgiving,105
Timber and shipbuilding,5
“Tom” Campbell,27
Topsfield spectre,177
Town-meeting and resolute chairman,96
Trade, internal, of the town,67
Traders, small,67
Treating in hay-time,109
Trees of great beauty,17
Triangular Market Square,66
Tyng Family,24
Uncle Richard,162
United States after a runaway,58
Unterrified clergyman,166
Verges and Dogberry,198
Vulgarian of the nouveaux riches,62
Wages, low rate of,23
Walsh, Michael,25
What a “project” is or was,174
Wheelwright, William,32
Whipping-post,123
Wigglesworth, Colonel,36
Winters, severe formerly,1
Witchcraft, and Uncle Richard’s opinion of it,167
Wood’s account of the aristocracy.,21
Yankee acuteness,141
Young persons sent to the town for education,134
Additional Transcriber’s Notes:The following changes were made to the original text. The correction is enclosed in brackets:Page 106: and they skurried away [scurried]Page 116: but the fact incontestibly proves, [incontestably]Page 187: My mother was in close attendance upon sick members of my sister’s family? [changed punctuation to a period]Page 230: Fall from his hands—his idle scimetar [scimitar]