The menu was stewed liver and rice, fricassee of bones, and shredded dog biscuit. The dinner was greatly appreciated; the guests a...te until they could eat no more, and Elisha Dyer's dachshund so overtaxed its capacities that it fell unconscious by its plate and had to be carried home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fashion required the suppression of all naturalness--'to walk upright, with unbending joints; to shake hands after the pump- handl...e formula; to look inexpressibly indifferent towards everybody and everything; and speak only in a mincing voice was to be a decorous member of society.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is said that he once had a sore toe that so annoyed him that he went to the woodpile and chopped it off with an axe, quoting th...e Scripture, 'If thy foot offend thee, cut it off.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If, during his daily walk, he met any children flying kites, playing marbles, or whirling peg tops, he would buy the toys from the...m and exhort them not to gamble or indulge in vain sport.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The society would permit no books of fiction in its collection because the town fathers believed that fiction 'worketh abomination... and maketh a lie.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »