 | Literature - 1886 - 922 pages
...were right who said so. It made times bad and bread scarce, and there wasn't much money for pyramids and billiards. The parents did not care for the new-born...her gossip ; and there were no neighbours' curses en the woman; no blows drove the man from his work. Folks get to think these things are to be allowed,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1886 - 894 pages
...impossible. But unhappily these harrowing particulars have all been proved, and have been admitted to, by the accused parents in a court of law. Yet, how...work and the woman to her gossip ; and there were no neighbors' curses on the woman ; no blows drove the man from his work. Folks get to think these things... | |
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... through days and nights, having no comfort till the little sick thing is well again, and who feel when it is dead and gone that they must lie down and die themselves, such a story seems simply impossible. But unhappily these harrowing particulars... 