Identifier: saturdayeveningp1933unse (find matches)
Title: The Saturday evening post
Year: 1839 (1830s)
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Publisher: Philadelphia : G. Graham
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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it was merelypeople with the Whipple nose, though, ofcourse, the stepmother did not have this.He paused only to wonder if the girl wouldhave it when she grew up—she now boasted Prodigal Son who spent all his substance inriotous living. One would have thought,said Winona, that this lesson would havecome home to one who had so lately fol-lowed the same bad course, and she soughtnow to enlighten the offender. And he had to eat with the pigs whenhis money was all gone, Merle submittedin an effort to aid Winona. But the Wilbur twins perverse mindmerely ran to the picture of fatted calf,though without relish—he did not like fatmeat. It was good to be back in a human at-mosphere once more, where he could hearhis fathers quips. The Penniman Sundaydinner was based notably on chicken, aswere all other Sunday dinners in Newbern,and his father, when he entered the house,was already beginning the gayety by pledg-ing Mrs. Penniman in a wineglass of theAjax Invigorator. He called it ruby liquor
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1/ There, Poor Thing! He Murmured but the rudiments of any nose whatsoever—and dismissed the tribe from his mind. He waited for Winona and Merle a blockup the street from the church. Winona wassilent with importance, preoccupied, grave,and yet uplifted. Not until they reachedthe Penniman gate did she issue from thisabstraction to ask the Wilbur twin ratherseverely what lesson he had learned fromthe morning sermon. The Wilbur twin,with immense difficulty, brought her to be-lieve that he had not heard a word of thesermon. This was especially incredible, be-cause it had dealt with the Parable of the and said that, taken in moderation, itwould harm no one, though he estimatedthat as few as three glasses would causepeople to climb trees like a monkey. The Wilbur twin was puzzled by this,and would have preferred that his presentbe devoted solely to making a new man ofJudge Penniman, but he laughed loyallywith his father, and rejoiced when Mrs.Penniman, in the character of the aban-doned d

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