Nine short stories by the author of Ten Nights in a Bar-Room, each turning on an everyday choice. A worried husband learns where happiness lies, a poor man nurses envy of a mill-owner’s new dam, a girl insists on thin shoes in winter, and a careless tongue does its damage, all resolved with Arthur’s steady Christian moral.
Characteristic of the improving fiction that filled American Sunday-school libraries in the nineteenth century. Download the free EPUB.