Excerpt from Notions of a Yankee Parson A venture, even so unlike a sermon as the pres ent little hazard, by a parson, without opening up the text, would be like a house without a doorstep. Notions extend from conceptions of the Milky Way to devices for milking a cow; from the lay out of the golden streets to carving a wedding chest. Yankee Notions suggests also dry goods, in dealing with which the New England Yankee is a proverbial expert; hence, perhaps, the idea is apt in a title for this book. The occupations of a ...
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Excerpt from Notions of a Yankee Parson A venture, even so unlike a sermon as the pres ent little hazard, by a parson, without opening up the text, would be like a house without a doorstep. Notions extend from conceptions of the Milky Way to devices for milking a cow; from the lay out of the golden streets to carving a wedding chest. Yankee Notions suggests also dry goods, in dealing with which the New England Yankee is a proverbial expert; hence, perhaps, the idea is apt in a title for this book. The occupations of a Yankee parson are so manifold, - from starting plants for the Paradise gardens to planting potatoes, from setting the pace for adolescent saints to setting hens, that you might possibly imagine that a seasoned Yankee parson would have a few notions if his mind has not gone altogether to seed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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