Mrs. Stowe’s Writings.
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LITTLE FOXES.
One Volume.
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HOUSE AND HOME PAPERS.
One Volume.
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THE PEARL OF ORR’S ISLAND.
One Volume.
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AGNES OF SORRENTO.
One Volume.
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UNCLE TOM’S CABIN.
One Volume.
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THE MINISTER’S WOOING.
One Volume.
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OLDTOWN FOLKS.
One Volume.
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James R. Osgood, & Co., Publishers.
LITTLE FOXES.
BY
CHRISTOPHER CROWFIELD,
AUTHOR OF “HOUSE AND HOME PAPERS.”
BOSTON:
JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY,
Late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co.
1875.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE,
in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts
University Press: Welch, Bigelow, & Co.,
Cambridge.
CONTENTS.
| Page | ||
| I. | Fault-Finding | 7 |
| II. | Irritability | 53 |
| III. | Repression | 91 |
| IV. | Persistence | 133 |
| V. | Intolerance | 176 |
| VI. | Discourtesy | 218 |
| VII. | Exactingness | 249 |
LITTLE FOXES.
I.
FAULT-FINDING.
“PAPA, what are you going to give us this winter for our eveningreadings?” said Jennie.
“I am thinking, for one thing,” I replied, “of preaching a course ofhousehold sermons from a very odd text prefixed to a discourse which Ifound at the bottom of the pamphlet-barrel in the garret.”
“Don’t say sermon, Papa,—it has such a dreadful sound; and on winterevenings one wants someth