Chapter 6

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]


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