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Out of the hurly-burly, or, Life in an odd corner
by Charles Heber Clark
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Table of Contents
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.
The founder of New Castle — A search for quietness — Life in the city and in the village — Why the latter is preferable — Peculiarities of the village — A sleepy old town — We erect our family altar 25
CHAPTER II.
A very dangerous invention — The patent combination stepladder — Domestic servants — Advertising for a girl — The peasant-girl of fact and fiction — A contrast 36
CHAPTER III.
The view upon the river — A magnificent panorama — Mr. and Mrs. Cooley — Matrimonial infelicities — The case of Mrs. Sawyer — A blighted life — A present — Our century plant and its peculiarities 47
CHAPTER IV.
Judge Pitman — His experiment in the barn — A lesson in natural history — Catching the early train — One of the miseries of living in the village — Ball's lung exercise — Mr. Cooley's impertinence 56
CHAPTER V.
A little love affair — Cowardice of Mr. Parker — Popular interest in amatory matters — The Magruder family — An event in its history — Remarkable experiments by Mrs. Magruder — An indignant husband — A question answered 68
CHAPTER VI.
The editor of our daily paper — The appearance and personal characteristics of Colonel Bangs — The affair with the tombstone — Art news — Colonel Bangs in the heat of a political campaign — Peculiar troubles of public singers — The phenomena of menageries — Extraordinary sagacity of the animals — The Wild Man of Afghanistan 84
CHAPTER VII.
The Battery and its peculiarities — A lovely scene — Swede and Dutchman two hundred years ago — Old names of the river — Indian names generally — Cooley's boy — His adventure in church — The long and the short of it — Mr. Cooley's dog and our troubles with it. 99
CHAPTER VIII.
The Morning Argus creates a sensation — A new editor — Mr. Slimmer the poet — An obituary department — Mr. Slimmer on death — Extraordinary scene in the sanctum of Colonel Bangs — Indignant advertisers — The colonel violently assaulted — Observations of the poet — The final catastrophe - Mysterious conduct of Bob Parker — The accident on Magruder's porch — Mrs. Adeler on the subject of obituary poetry in general 113
CHAPTER IX.
The reason why I purchased a horse — A peculiar characteristic — Driving by the river — Our horse as a persecutor — He becomes a genuine nightmare — Experimenting with his tail — How our horse died — In relation to pirates — Mrs. Jones's bold corsair — A lamentable tale 134
CHAPTER X.
A picturesque church — Some reflections upon church music — Bob Parker in the choir — Our undertaker — A gloomy man — Our experience with the hot-air furnaces — A series of accidents — Mr. Collamer's vocalism — An extraordinary mistake 152
CHAPTER XI.
A fishing excursion down the river — Difficulties of the voyage — A series of unfortunate incidents — Our return home, and how we were received — A letter upon the general subject of angling — The sorrows of the fishermen — Lieutenant Smiley — His recollections of Rev. Mr. Blodgett — A very remarkable missionary 164
CHAPTER XII.
How the plumber fixed my boiler — A vexatious business — How he didn't come to time, and what the ultimate result was — An accident ; and the pathetic story of young Chubb — Reminiscences of General Chubb — The eccentricities of an absent-minded man — The rivals — Parker versus Smiley 183
CHAPTER XIII.
An evil day — Flogging-time in New Castle — How the punishment is inflicted — A few remarks upon the general merits of the system — A singular judge — How George Washington Busby was sentenced — Emotions of the prisoner — A cruel infliction, and a code t^at ought to be reformed 200
CHAPTER XIV.
A Delaware legend — A story of the old time — The Christmas play — A cruel accusation — The flight in the darkness along the river shore — The trial and the condemnation — St. Pillory's day seventy years ago — Flogging a woman — The deliverance 211
CHAPTER XV.
A very disagreeable predicament — Wild exultation of Parker — He makes an important announcement — An interview with the old man — The embarrassment of Mr. Sparks, and how he overcame it — A story of Bishop Potts — The miseries of too much consolidation — How Potts suffered, and what his end was 237
CHAPTER XVI.
Old Fort Kasirair — Two centuries ago — The goblins of the lane — An outrage upon Pitman's cow — The judge discusses the subject of bitters — How Cooley came home — Turning off the gas — A frightful accident in the Argus office — The terrible fate of Archibald Watson — How Mr. Bergner taught Sunday-school 255
CHAPTER XVII.
A dismal sort of day — A few able remarks about umbrellas — The umbrella in a humorous aspect — The calamity that befell Colonel Coombs — An ambitions but miserable monarch — The influence of umbrellas on the weather — An improved weather system — A little nonsense — Judge Pitman's views of weather of various kinds 278
CHAPTER XVIII.
Trouble for the hero and heroine — A broken engagement and a forlorn damsel — Bob Parker's suffering — A formidable encounter — The peculiar conduct of a dumb animal — Cooley's boy and his home discipline — A story of an echo- 293
CHAPTER XIX.
A certificate concerning Pitman's hair — Unendurable persecution — A warning to men with bald-headed friends — An explanation — The slanderer discovered — Benjamin P. Gunn — A model life-insurance agent 306
CHAPTER XX.
A certain remarkable book — A few suggestions respecting Boston — Delusions of childhood — Bullying General Gage — Judge Pitman and the catechism — An extraordinary blunder — The facts in the case of Hillegass — A false alarm 324
CHAPTER XXI.
Settling the business — Vindication of Mr. Bob Parker — A complete reconciliation — The great Cooley inquest — The uncertainty in regard to Thomas Cooley — A phenomenal coroner — The solution of the mystery 334
CHAPTER XXII.
An arrival — A present from a Congressman — Meditation upon his purpose — The patent-office report of the future — A plan for revolutionizing public documents and opening a new department in literature — Our trip to Salem — A tragical event — The last of Lieutenant Smiley 360
CHAPTER XXIII.
Pitman as a politician — He is nominated for the Legislature — How he was serenaded, and what the result was — I take a hand at politics — The story of my first political speech — My reception at Dover — Misery of a man with only one speech — The scene at the mass meeting — A frightful discomfiture. 363
CHAPTER XXIV.
The wedding-day — Enormous excitement in the village — Preparations for the event — The conduct of Bob Parker — The ceremony at the church, and the company at Magruder's — A last look at some old friends — Departure of the bride and groom — Some uncommonly solemn reflections, and then — The end 387
List of Illustrations
1. — Frontispiece.
2. — Title Page. 1
3. — The Founder of the Village (Initial Letter) 25
4. — A Professor of Music 26
5. — A Disgusted Agriculturist 28
6. — New Castle from the River (Full Page) 32
7. — The Real Peasant-Girl (Initial Letter) 36
8. — A Dangerous Invention 37
9. — The Early Morning Fire 39
10. — The Ideal Peasant-Girl 42
11. — Unsymmetrical Cold Beef
12. — The View down the River (Full Page)
13. — A Family Jar (Initial Letter)
14. — A Musical Navigator
15. — The Nocturnal Dog
16. — Mr. Sawyer's Nose
17. — The Man with the Century Plant
18. — A Lively Vegetable
19. — Judge Pitman's Bag (Initial Letter)
20. — The Judge introduces Himself 57
21. — Pitman's Musical Experiment 59
22. — That Infamous Egg 60
23. — The Dog by the Wayside 61
24. — Catching the Train 61
25. — Hauled In 62
26. — My Lung Exercise 64
27. — An Altercation with Cooley 67
28. — A Female Professor (Initial Letter) 68
29. — The Lamp Turned Low 68
30. — Studying Up 69
31. — Parker Relating his Woes 69
32. — Magruder's Wooing 72
33. — A Queer Feeling in his Head 72
34. — Magruder Tells his Brother 73
35. — The Class Going Up 74
36. — A Secreted Observer 74
37. — A General Attack on the Subject (Full Page) 78
38. — Peeping Through the Crack 79
39. — A Furious Husband 80
40. — An Asinine Being (Initial Letter) 84
41. — The Colonel's Bravery 85
42. — An Interview with Cooley 86
43. — That Tombstone 87
44. — Mr. Mullins Explains 88
45. — Exit Murphy 89
46. — A Late Call. 91
47. — A Captive Maiden 91
48. — Excavating Her 92
49. — Her Feet 92
50. — That Antiquarian 92
51. — The Raging Rhinoceros 94
52. — The King of Beasts 94
53. — The Rival Lovers 96
54. — On the Settee 96
55. — She Sat on Him 97
56. — Too Thin 97
57. — The Wild Man 98
58. — The Fat Woman 98
59. — The Boy of the Period (Initial Letter) 99
60. — The Battery (Full Page) 102
61. — An Ancient Warrior 103
62. — A Raid on the Melon-Patch 106
63. — Communing with Jones's Boy 106
64. — Held Fast 107
65. — The Solemnity of Jones. 107
66. — Taring him Out 108
67. — Not Matched 109
68. — Dosing a Cur 110
69. — Over the Fence and Back Again 110
70. — Much too Faithful 111
71. — Cruelty to an Animal 112
72. — Removing a Mouthful 112
73. — A Patron of the "Argus" (Initial letter) 113
74. — The Poet 114
75. — The Editor Explaining his Views 115
76. — The Throes of Composition 116
77. — A Row of Readers 117
78. — Taking a Peep 117
79. — The Scene in the Sanctum 118
80. — That Monkey 119
81. — Mrs. Smith's Woe 120
82. — Bartholomew's Indignant Father 122
83. — Mr. McFadden 124
84. — The Editor meets the Poet 126
85. — The Colonel in a Tight Place 127
86. — Going up Stairs 128
87. — In Highland Costume 130
88. — Why Bob Stayed 130
89. — Sawing him Out 131
90. — Mrs. Adeler's Views 132
91. — Bob's Trousers 133
92. — The New Mazeppa (Initial Letter) 134
93. — Cooley at an Auction 135
94. — Our Urbane Horse. 136
95. — Trying to Catch Up 138
96. — Kicking 139
97. — A Nightmare 140
98. — Haunted 141
99. — An Artificial Tail 142
100. — A Demoralized Horse 142
101. — It Came Off! 143
102. — The Melodramatic Freebooter 144
103. — Mrs. Jones's Pirate 145
104. — Sweeping the Horizon 146
105. — The Weekly Wash 146
106. — Hailing the "Mary Jane" 147
107. — A General Massacre 147
108. — The Paternal Jones 148
109. — She Puts on her Things 148
110. — Slaying the Captain 149
111. — "False! False!" 150
112. — More Butchery 150
113. — Suicide of the Widow 150
114. — The Wreck of Mrs. Jones 151
115. — A Chorister (Initial Letter) 152
116. — The Spire 163
117. — Sinful Games. 154
118. — The Old Church (Full Page) 156
119. — A Chinese Prayer 157
120. — The Minister and I 157
121. — In the Pipe 158
122. — Bob in the Choir 158
123. — The Undertaker's Sign 159
124. — A Gloomy Man 160
125. — Very Warm Work 161
126. — Collamer Falls In 161
127. — The Clergyman 162
128. — Collamer Sings 162
129. — He Asks a Question 163
130. — A Ribald Boy 163
131. — A Fisherman (Initial Letter) 164
132. — Bringing 'em Home 164
133. — Pushing Off 166
134. — We Change Places 165
135. — Cooling Off 166
136. — Waiting for Bites 166
137. — Anchor Gone 166
138. — Fixing an Oar 167
139. — Lost Him 167
140. — Saved 167
141. — A Tangle 168
142. — The Man who Ow ned the Boat 168
143. — A Successor of Izaak Walton 169
144. — A Disheartened Digger 170
145. — Tears 171
146. — Watching the Cork 171
147. — A Naked Hook 171
148. — The Last Match 172
149. — Caught on a Limb 173
150. — A Playful Eel 174
151. — Wriggling 174
152. — Pulling In 175
153. — That Infamous Boy 175
154. — A South Sea Islander 177
155. — Mr. Blodgett, Missionary 177
156. — Going to the Picnic 177
157. — The Vestry Meeting 178
158. — Putting them to Sleep 178
159. — The Funeral Service 179
160. — The Remaining Warden 179
161. — Going Home 180
162. — He Paddled his own Canoe 180
163. — Smashing poor Mott 181
164. — A Fijian 182
165. — Our Plumber (Initial Letter) 183
166. — He Examines the Range 184
167. — I Meet Him 184
168. — How he Goes to Wilmington 184
169. — An Indignant Artisan 185
170. — On the Asparagus Bed 185
171. — The Condition of my Grass-plot 186
172. — At the Front Gate. 186
173. — A View of the Ruins 187
174. — Watching 188
175. — One of the Robbers 188
176. — Mr. Nippers Enters 188
177. — I Expostulate with Nippers 189
178. — Mrs. Cooley's Servant 190
179. — She Shakes Henry 190
180. — Bob as an Author 191
181. — Young Chubb 191
182. — Mysterious Music 192
183. — "What does this Mean?" 193
184. — Trying to Make him Disgorge 193
185. — Henry's Brother tries Pressure 194
186. — Exit with the Sexton 194
187. — The Tomb of Chubb 195
188. — General Chubb's Legs 196
189. — The Influence of Art 197
190. — The General Dives In 197
191. — Through the Canvas 197
192. — Pilloried (Initial Letter) 200
193. — Infant Spectators 201
194. — The Whipping-post 201
195. — An Ancient Custom 202
196. — That Remarkable Judge. 204
197. — George Washington Busby 205
198. — The Jury 205
199. — Maternal Love 206
200. — Manhood's Toil 206
201. — Busby Whispers to the Tipstaff 207
202. — More Hopeful Still 207
203. — His Infant Steps 208
204. — Busby's Heart grows Lighter 209
205. — The Thunderbolt Falls 209
206. — Leading him Out 210
207. — Wielding the Lash (Initial Letter) 211
208. — Hob-nobbing 212
209. — The Major in a Sulk 213
210. — The Lovers 215
211. — "Where did You get That?" 217
212. — The Flight by the River. 219
213. — Dick Confesses 226
214. — Wearing the Wooden Collar 228
215. — A Flogging Seventy Years Ago (Full Page) 230
216. — Pardoned 233
217. — A Broken Man 235
218. — The Market Green and the Old Church 236
219. — A Juvenile Musician (Initial Letter) 237
220. — Caught 238
221. — Can't Reach It 238
222. — Creeping Out 239
223. — Back Again in a Hurry 239
224. — A Mighty Ugly Situation 240
225. — Listening 240
226. — Parker Exults 241
227. — The Second Hornpipe 241
228. — He Surveys her Dwelling 241
229. — Old' Sparks's Sacred Dust 244
230. — A Conscientious Tombstone 244
231. — Bishop Potts 246
232. — A Warm Welcome 246
233. — A Surprise for the Bishop 247
234. — The Bride goes Home in a Row 248
235. — Potts Meditates. 249
236. — Waving Farewell 249
237. — The Bishop is Confounded 250
238. — Starting the Third Time 252
239. — Potts becomes Hysterical 253
240. — The Peruvian Monk 253
241. — The Maniac Doctor 253
242. — Bob gives an Opinion 254
243. — Potts's Child 254
244. — On the Ramparts (Initial Letter) 255
245. — The Site of Fort Kasimir (Full Page) 258
246. — Modern Warriors 259
247. — A Dutch Goblin 260
248. — Pitman tells of his Griefs 260
249. — A Troublesome Cow 261
250. — That Scandalous Blind-board 261
251. — The Temperance Society makes an Inspection 262
252. — "I'll Knock the Stuffin' out o' him" 262
253. — The Judge's Bitters Advertisements 263
254. — He Takes a Tonic 263
255. — Another Dozen 264
256. — Cooley's Illuminated Nose 265
257. — "Out, Brief Candle" 266
258. — "There was Mrs. Cooley a- Watches'" 266
259. — Dr. Hopkins is Amazed 267
260. — Appalling Intelligence 268
261. — The Commodore's Tomb 269
262. — The Fall of Simms 270
263. — "Knock 'em with a Pole" 270
264. — Hit by an Apple 271
265. — Tim Keyser's Nose 272
266. — "He Slid Abound so Quick" 272
267. — "He Cut an Opening in the Ice" 273
268. — The Pickerel Bites 273
269. — "The Better of the Fight" 274
270. — "And Pulled Tim Keyser Through" 274
271. — Under Water 275
272. — An Awful Sneeze 275
273. — He Floats Ashore 276
274. — "He Very Roundly Swore" 276
275. — At Dinner 277
276. — A Very Wet Time (Initial Letter) 278
277. — A Damp Fisherman 279
278. — Forelorn 279
279. — The Comic Umbrella 280
280. — Delicate Warriors 281
281. — The Experiment of Coombs 281
282. — An Embarrassed Panther 282
283. — Bringing Home the Monster 282
284. - Getting Ready for Action 283
285. — The Medicine Man Dies 283
286. — Cooley Awaits the Simoom 286
287. — The Judge Enjoys the Weather 290
288. — Perfectly Satisfied 291
289. — The Genuine Weather-Gauge 292
290. — "A Friend of Man" (Initial Letter) 293
291. — The Impetuosity of Bob 296
292. — A Somnambulist 297
293. — A Precautionary Measure. 297
294. — Dreaming of Magruder 297
295. — Under the Bed 298
296. — Bob is Amazed 298
297. — Hunting for Henry 298
298. — The Mystery Unraveled 299
299. — "Perfectly Still" 300
300. — The Consequences of a Sneeze 301
301. — The Dog Leaves 301
302. — I Suddenly Climb the Fence 301
303. — Sold 302
304. — "Commere to Me" 302
305. — A Victim 303
306. — A Human Echo 304
307. — It won't Answer 304
308. — After that Boy 305
309. — A Bald-headed Party (Initial Letter) 306
310. — A Deluge of Letters 308
311. — Mrs. Singerly's Poodle 309
312. — The Rally of the Baldheaded 309
313. — A Microscopic Examination 310
314. — Benjamin P. Gunn 313
315. — A Visit to Mrs. Kemper 315
316. — Gunn Waits with the Doctor 317
317. — Pounding on the Partition 317
318. — Up the Steeple 318
319. — Into the Crater 318
320. — Benjamin is Ejected 319
321. — Portrait of Gunn 319
322. — On the War Path 323
323. — General Gage and the Boy (Initial Letter) 324
324. — The Judge is Puzzled 329
325. — Catechizing Him 329
326. — The Doctors at Hillegass's House 330
327. — Hillegass Recovers 331
328. — The Joke on the Chief 332
329. — A Deluge 332
330. — The Combat on the Stairs 333
331. — A Fireman 333
332. — The Bone Controversy (Initial Letter) 334
333. — Examining the Premises. 335
334. — We Proceed Carefully 336
335. — An Explosion at Cooley's 339
336. — The Remains Scatter 340
337. — "Fooling with a Gun" 341
338. — Selfridge Argues with Smith 342
339. — The Rival Juries 343
340. — Cooley Turns Up 344
341. — "Tossed the Little Baby" 348
342. — That Mummy 349
343. — A Patent-Office Report (Initial Letter) 350
344. — Pub. Docs 351
345. — Alphonso Lies in Wait 353
346. — Lucullus, the Serenader 353
347. — Death of Alphonso 354
348. — Lucullus Breaks Jail 354
349. — Smith Bombards the Artists 355
350. — The Lovers Float Ashore 356
351. — A Parting Scene 357
352. — Smiley is Intoxicated 358
353. — "He Leaped into the Sea" 360
354. — Bob is Rescued 361
355. — Nursing the Invalid 362
356. — Tail-piece 362
357. — Before the Mass Meeting (Initial Letter) 363
358. — The Serenaders at Pitman's 365
359. — Cooley Argues with Daniel Webster 366
360. — The Discomfited Drummer 367
361. — The Kickapoo's Mistake 369
362. — A Patriotic Dutchman 370
363. — Collapsed 370
364. — Commodore Scudder's Dog 371
365. — The Committee Welcomes Me 373
366. — The Cold-eyed Drummer 375
367. — "Go, Mark him Well" 376
368. — Mr. Hotchkiss's Joke 379
369. — The Drummer Glares at Me 381
370. — I Retreat in Despair 386
371. — A Solemn Vow 386
372. — The Waiter (Initial Letter) 387
373. — The Collars in his Trunk 389
374. — A Shirt-button Lost 390
375. — Waiting for the Bride 390
376. — At the Reception 392
377. — Pitman Expresses his Views 394
378. — "We Flung a Shoe after Them" 394
379. — The Final Bow 398
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