One night, under cover of darkness, and further concealed in a most cunning disguisement, a desperate burglar slid into his happy ...home, and robbed them all of everything. And darker yet to tell, the blacksmith himself did ignorantly conduct this burglar into his family's heart. It was the Bottle Conjurer! Upon the opening of that fatal cork, forth flew the fiend, and shrivelled up his home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The blacksmith dropped his hammer, the carpenter his plane, the mason his trowel, the farmer his sickle, the baker his loaf, and t...he tapster his bottle. All were off for the mines, some on horses, some on carts, and some on crutches, and one went in a litter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A few ideas seem to be agreed upon. Help none but those who help themselves. Educate only at schools which provide in some form fo...r industrial education. These two points should be insisted upon. Let the normal instruction be that men must earn their own living, and that by the labor of their hands as far as may be. This is the gospel of salvation for the colored man. Let the labor not be servile, but in manly occupations like that of the carpenter, the farmer, and the blacksmith.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Old soldiers, Miss Dandridge. Someday you'll learn how they hate to give up. Captain of a troop one day, every man's face turned t...oward ya. Lieutenants jump when I growl. Now tomorrow, I'll be glad if the blacksmith asks me to shoe a horse.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... to work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think I always respected a good ...blacksmith more than a lady of leisure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The man of business ... goes on Sunday to the church with the regularity of the village blacksmith, there to renounce and abjure b...efore his God the line of conduct which he intends to pursue with all his might during the following week.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why should a blacksmith put his hands in the fire if he has tongs? She was paradigmatic of those fat, gigantic women in Londo...n, all bum and elbow, who wear itchy tentlike coats, carry absurd bags of oranges, and usually wheeze down beside you on the bus, smelling of shilling perfume and cold air. She wore "sensible" shoes, had one bad foot, smoked too much, and cultivated a look as if she were always about to say no. In all, she was a woman with the carriage and studied irascibility of a middle-aged prebendary in the Church of England, executrix of self-reliance, lawgiver, Diocletian reborn.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Toiling,--rejoicing,--sorrowing, Onward through life he goes;... Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees its close; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the lesson thou hast taught!... Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands;... The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »