A rich merchant learns that the poor tailor who owed him money was an honest man after all, a Sunday Christian is weighed on weekdays, and a hapless Jacob Jones never manages to get along in the world. Arthur’s brief domestic stories warn against debt, procrastination, haste to be rich, sulking, easy generosity and taking things for granted, each ending with its lesson made plain.
Moral fiction from the author of Ten Nights in a Bar-Room, a window on the values of the American middle-class home. Download the free EPUB.