A windy Day—The Simons of the Desert—Good Advice to
Women—Preparing for an Emergency—“Likely Creeters”—Now and
then—Vain Experiments—The miscarried Letter—“She is Coming
to-day!”—Arrival of Miss Rickerson, she that Was an Allen—Her
flattering Tongue—How She Scared Caleb Cobb, Extolled the
Spring Corset, and made Josiah Think he was handsome—Our four
old Fathers and their chilly Blue Laws—“Praise your Friends
while they Are Living”—Samantha Holds firm, but Cooks good
Victuals, and Does well by Alzina Ann 189-204