The Old Farmer and His Almanack : : Being Some Observations on Life and Manners in New England a Hundred Years Ago / / George Lyman Kittredge.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: American History eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©1904
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:4th printing 1924. Reprint 2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (403 p.) :; 1 Frontispiz
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • PREFACE
  • CONTENTS
  • THE OLD FARMER AND HIS ALMANACK
  • THE OLD FARMER AND HIS CORRESPONDENTS
  • ASTROLOGY
  • THE MAN OF THE SIGNS
  • ARTISTIC EMBELLISHMENT
  • MURDER WILL OUT
  • WIT AND WISDOM OF THE FARMER'S CALENDAR
  • LAWYERS AND QUACKS
  • THE TOAD AND THE SPIDER
  • SUGAR AND SALT
  • THE FLYING STATIONER
  • FIRE!
  • “DROWNED! DROWNED!”
  • HUSKINGS AND OTHER AMUSEMENTS
  • SMALL ECONOMIES
  • INDIAN SUMMER AND THE COMET
  • ARMY AND NAVY
  • THE SCHOOLMASTER
  • TITLES OF HONOR
  • MUNCHAUSEN
  • THE GREAT MOON HOAX
  • ENTERTAINMENT FOR MAN AND BEAST
  • ON THE ROAD
  • HAVE AN EYE TO THE MOON!
  • WHAT TO READ
  • BARBERRIES AND WHEAT
  • INDIAN TALK
  • MORE INDIAN TALK
  • INDEX