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# A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields/The Farmer's Wife (Hégésippe Moreau)

THE FARMER'S WIFE.
NEW YEAR'S PRESENT TO MADAME G.***
HÉGÉSIPPE MOREAU.
Love—Honour—to the farmer's wife So pretty and so kind! A wild bird that delights to live In flowers and moss enshrined! Old Vagabond and orphan child, That need a fork and knife, May you, by good luck, come across, The farm and farmer's wife!
The empty stool beside the hearth The poor man's is, at sight, And the great chest of walnut wood Denies him not his right. 'Twas there one day I came to sit, Weary with worldly strife, One day—then forward, and farewell! O farm and farmer's wife!
My one good day has had its end Long since, long since, ah me! But there is pleasure for me yet In its sweet memory.
I shut my eyes,—I see again, With light the garden rife, The hedge in flower, the little wood, The farm and farmer's wife!
If God, as oft our pastor says, Repays all kindness done (At random even) to our kind, My debt He sure must own. Oh, may He fill that vale with flowers, That home with joy and life, And ever guard from storms and tears The farm and farmer's wife!
In winter may a group of Loves Around her spindle smile, Like angels bright in Mary's home, Her leisure to beguile; And may they hail with shout and noise, On mimic drum and fife, A brother dear, to glad each year The farm and farmer's wife.
ENVOI.
My little song, now take thy flight! A feeble offering! In April nights, with fuller praise, The nightingale shall sing. Oh may her tender song of love Scare death, and ill, and strife, And bring down choicest blessings on The farm and farmer's wife.
# A New England Nun and Other Stories

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* related portals: New England.
Of the genuine originality of these stories it is hard to speak too strongly. Now and then she touches a very deep nature, and opens to view a secret of the human heart which makes us cry out that here is a poet, a seer. Such an effect is produced by the most powerful story in the book, Life Everlastin'. More frequently she makes us exclaim with admiration over the novelty, yet truthfulness, of her portraitures, as in The Revolt of "Mother" and the story which gives the title to her book. —Extract from the review in Atlantic Monthly, June 1891. Full review(s) in the Talk page.
A NEW ENGLAND NUN
AND OTHER STORIES
BY
MARY E. WILKINS AUTHOR OF "A HUMBLE ROMANCE" ETC.
NEW YORK AND LONDON HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
A New England Nun
Copyright, 1891, 1920 by Harper & Brothers Copyright 1919, by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Printed in the United States of America

### LIST OF STORIES

* PAGE
* A New England Nun 1
* A Village Singer 18
* A Gala Dress 37
* The Twelfth Guest 54
* Sister Liddy 81
* Calla-Lilies And Hannah 99
* A Wayfaring Couple 121
* A Poetess 140
* Christmas Jenny 160
* A Pot Of Gold 178
* The Scent Of The Roses 198
* A Solitary 215
* A Gentle Ghost 234
* A Discovered Pearl 253
* A Village Lear 268
* Amanda And Love 288
* Up Primrose Hill 305
* A Stolen Christmas 321
* Life Everlastin' 338
* An Innocent Gamester 363
* Louisa 384
* A Church Mouse 407
* A Kitchen Colonel 427
* The Revolt of "Mother" 448
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.
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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Ramsay, John Douglas

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​RAMSAY. (Lieut., 1829. f-p., 24; h-p., 5.)
John Douglas Ramsay, born in Feb. 1805, is son of Capt. Robt. Ramsay, R.N., C.B.
This officer (who in 1814-15 had served with his father on board the Regulus 44, and had in that ship visited the Chesapeake) entered the Royal Naval College 3 Dec. 1818, and embarked, 24 Aug. 1821, as a Volunteer, on board the Nimrod 18, Capt. ​Chas. Nelson, attached to the force on the west coast of Scotland. He was subsequently employed as Midshipman on the Home, South American, and African stations in the Impregnable 104, Sappho 18, Brazen 26, Capt. Wm. Shepheard, Brittania 120, Brazen again, Capt. Geo. Wickens Willes, Prince Regent 120, Capt. Constantine Rich. Moorsom, and Alert 18, Capt. Sam. Burgess. In June, 1827, six months after he had passed his examination, he became Mate of the Tweed 28, Capt. Lord Henry John Spencer Churchill; and, on 23 Jan. 1829, being then at the Cape of Good Hope, he was made Lieutenant into the Sparrowhawk 18, Capt. Thos. Sanders. In the following April he returned to England and was paid off. His appointments have since been – 18 March, 1833, to the Coast Guard – 27 June, 1837, to the command of the Nimble Revenue-vessel – and, 15 July, 1840, again to the Coast Guard, in which he continues.
Lieut. Ramsay married, 18 Dec. 1839, his cousin Jessie, only daughter of the late J. S. Newall, Esq., and was left a widower with one son, 2 Nov. 1844. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Ramsay, Joseph

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​RAMSAY. (Retired Commander, 1848. f-p., 14; h-p., 34.)
Joseph Ramsay entered the Navy, 23 July, 1799, as Midshipman, on board the Monmouth 64, Capt. Geo. Hart, in which ship he accompanied the expedition to Holland, and continued employed in the North Sea and Mediterranean until transferred, in May, 1804, to the Atlas 74, Capts. Wm. Johnstone Hope and Sam. Pym. Under the latter officer he fought in the action off St. Domingo 6 Feb. 1806. In Jan. 1807, being then at Cadiz, he removed to the Queen 98, Capt. Fras. Pender, flag-ship subsequently of Rear-Admiral Geo. Martin in the Mediterranean. He was next, in Oct. and Nov. 1808, received on board the Namur 74, Capt. Rich. Jones, and Eloise sloop, Capt. John Haswell, both at the Nore; and on 21 Dec. in the same year he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. His after appointments were – 23 Dec. 1808, to the Brilliant frigate, Capt. Thos. Smyth, with whom he made a voyage to South America – 27 Oct. 1809, to the Castilian brig, Capt. David Braimer, lying in the Downs, where he remained until July, 1811 – and, 20 May, 1812, to the Hannibal 74, Capt. Sir Michael Seymour, in which ship he served in Basque Roads, assisted at the capture of the French 40-gun frigate La Sultane, and again visited the West Indies. He went on half-pay in Sept. 1814; and accepted his present rank 12 Feb. 1848.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Rainier, Charles

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​RAINIER. (Lieutenant, 1844.)
Charles Rainier is brother of Lieut. Peter Rainier, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy 26 Aug. 1830; passed his examination 7 June, 1837; served on the Pacific, Portsmouth, and Mediterranean stations, as Mate, in the President 50, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Chas. Bayne Hodgson Ross, St. Vincent 120, bearing the flag of Sir Chas. Rowley, and Tyne 26, Capt. Wm. Nugent Glascock; and obtained his commission 24 Feb. 1844. His succeeding appointments were – 6 March, 1844, as Additional Lieutenant, to the Formidable 84, Capt. Sir Chas. Sullivan, in the Mediterranean – 12 May following, again in the latter capacity, to the Tyne – 15 Sept. 1845 still as Additional (after a few months of half-pay) to the Penelope steam-frigate, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Wm. Jones on the coast of Africa – and 3 March, 1846, to the Styx steam-sloop of 280 horse-power, Capt. Henry Chads, with whom he returned to England from the station last named in 1848.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Rainier, Peter

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​RAINIER. (Lieutenant, 1835.)
Peter Rainier is son of the late Capt. Peter Rainier, R.N., C.B.; brother of Lieut. Chas. Rainier, R.N.; nephew of Lieut. John Rainier, R.N.; and cousin of the late Rear-Admiral John Spratt Rainier.
This officer entered the Navy, 2 Dec. 1824, on board the Clio 18, Capts. Robt. Aitchison and Robt. Deans, attached to the force in the North Sea; and was afterwards, until Feb. 1835, employed on the Mediterranean, West India, and Lisbon stations, as Midshipman and Mate, in the Asia 84, Capt. Edw. Curzon, Alacrity 10, Capt. Joseph Nias, North Star 28, Capts. Lord Wm. Paget and Hon. Geo. Rolle Walpole Trefusis, Champion 18, Capt. Chas. Hamlyn Williams, and Britannia 120, commanded by his father. He obtained his commission 18 July, 1835; served from the following Sept. until the close of 1836 in the Pylades 18, Capt. Wm. Langford Castle, on the coast of Africa, and from 6 Dec. 1843 until the commencement of 1847 in the Coast Guard; and since 27 July in the latter year has been employed as Admiralty Agent on board a contract mail steam-vessel. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Ramsay, George

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​RAMSAY. (Captain, 1843. f-p., 20; h-p., 7.)
George Ramsay, born 4 June, 1807, is second son of Lieut.-General Hon. John Ramsay, who died Colonel of the 79th Regt. 28 June, 1842; first cousin of the Earl of Dalhousie; and nephew of Lord Panmure. Four of his brothers are in the Hon.E.I.Co.’s military service – one of them, James, Deputy- Assistant-Commissary-General of the Bengal army.
This officer entered the Navy, in Dec. 1820, on board the Cambrian 48, Capt. Gawen Wm. Hamilton; in the boats of which ship we find him on several occasions engaged with the pirates in the Mediterranean. On leaving her be joined the Euryalus 42, Capt. Augustus Wm. Jas. Clifford. He subsequently removed to the Doris 42, Capt. Sir John Gordon Sinclair; and while serving in that ship on the South American station was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 30 April, 1827. His succeeding appointments were – to the Heron 18, Capt. Hon. Fred. Wm. Grey, also in South America – in 1828 to the Ganges 84, flag-ship of Sir Robt. Waller Otway at Rio de Janeiro – 26 Sept. 1829, to the Orestes 18, Capt. Wm. Nugent Glascock, of which vessel, stationed on the coast of Ireland, he was for a time First-Lieutenant – 28 April, 1831, in the capacity last mentioned, to the Nimrod 20, Capts. Lord Edw. Russell and John M‘Dougall, under whom he was for three years employed off Lisbon – 16 Aug. 1835, still as First-Lieutenant, to the Wanderer 16, Capt. Thos. Dilke, fitting at Sheerness – and, 30 Nov. following, to the Rodney 92, Capt. Hyde Parker. In the latter ship he served in the Mediterranean, latterly as Senior, until advanced to the rank of Commander 10 Jan. 1837. His next appointment was to the Pilot 16, the command of which he retained, on the North America and West India station, from 3 Aug. 1838 until Aug. 1842. He was then invalided from dysentery. He had been attacked twice before by yellow fever; all but one of his crew had suffered from it; and 3 of the officers and 20 of the crew had fallen victims. He attained his present rank 20 March, 1843; and has since been on half-pay.
Capt. Ramsay married, 12 Aug. 1845, Sarah Frances, only daughter of W. Robertson, Esq., of Logan House, Midlothian. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Ramsay, Robert (b)

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​RAMSAY. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 1 1; h-p., 32.)
Robert Ramsay entered the Navy, 24 Aug. 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Monarch 74, Capt. John Clarke Searle, bearing the flag of Lord Keith in the Downs; removed, in Aug. 1805, to the Powerful 74, Capts. Robt. Plampin, Rich. Buck, Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew, and Chas. Jas. Johnston; and from Oct. 1803 until Aug. 1815, when he took up a commission bearing date 21 of the preceding Feb., was employed as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, chiefly on the Home station, in the Unicorn 32, Capt. Alex. Robt. Kerr, Defender gun-brig, Ferret sloop, Capt. Halliday, Raisonnable 64,Cheerful, Lieut.-Commander W. Smith, and Spey 20 and Towey 24, both commanded by Capt. Hew Steuart. In the Powerful he assisted as Midshipman at the capture, 13 June and 9 July, 1806, of the privateers La Henriette, of 20 guns and 124 men, and (after a running fight of nearly two hours and some loss) La Bellone, of 30 guns and 194 men. He was also, 11 Dec. 1807, present in the same ship at the annihilation, at Griessee, in the island of Java, of the dockyard and stores, and of all the men-of-war remaining to Holland in the East Indies; and in 1809 he was in her in the expedition to the Walcheren. In the Unicorn he contributed to the capture, in Feb. and April, 1810, of Le Gascon privateer of 16 guns and 113 men, and L’Espérance (formerly H.M. 22-gun ship Laurel) armée en flûte, with a valuable cargo of East India produce. Since he left the Towey he has not been afloat.
Lieut. Ramsay has been for some years employed as an Emigration Agent in Ireland. He married, in 1837, Anne, daughter of F. O’Donnell, Esq., of Cardonagh, in that country.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Bower, or Bowmaker, Walter

​Bower, or Bowmaker, Walter (d. 1449).—Was Abbot of Inchcolm, and continued and enlarged Fordun's Scotichronicon.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Bowring, Sir John

​Bowring, Sir John (1792-1872).—Linguist, writer, and traveller, was b. at Exeter. His talent for acquiring languages enabled him at last to say that he knew 200, and could speak 100. He was appointed editor of the Westminster Review in 1824; travelled in various countries with the view of reporting on their commercial position; was an M.P. 1835-37 and 1841-49, and held various appointments in China. His chief literary work was the translation of the folk-songs of most European nations, and he also wrote original poems and hymns, and works on political and economic subjects. B. was knighted in 1854. He was the literary executor of Jeremy Bentham (q.v.).
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Boucicault, Dion

​Boucicault, Dion (1820-90).—Actor and dramatist, b. in Dublin and ed. in London, joined Macready while still young, and made his first appearance upon the stage with Benj. Webster at Bristol. Soon afterwards he began to write plays, occasionally in conjunction, of which the first, London Assurance (1841) had an immediate success. He was an excellent actor, especially in pathetic parts. His plays are for the most part adaptations, but are often very ingenious in construction, and have had great popularity. Among the best known are The Colleen Bawn, Arrah-na-Pogue, Faust and Marguerite, and The Shaughraun. B. d. in America.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Boyd, Zachary

​Boyd, Zachary (1585-1653).—Divine, belonged to the family of B. of Pinkhill, Ayrshire, was ed. at Glasgow and at Saumur. He translated many parts of Scripture into uncouth verse. Among his works are The Garden of Zion and Zion's Flowers.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Bower, Archibald

​Bower, Archibald (1686-1766).—Historian, b. at Dundee, and ed. at the Scots Coll., Douay, became a Jesuit, but afterwards joined the Church of England, and again became a Jesuit. He wrote a History of Rome (1735-44), a History of the Popes (1748-66). These works are ill-proportioned and inaccurate. His whole life appears to have been a very discreditable one.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Bowles, William Lisle

​Bowles, William Lisle (1762-1850).—Poet and antiquary, b. at King's Sutton, Northamptonshire, of which his f. was vicar, and ed. at Winchester and Oxf., was for the most of his life Vicar of Bremhill, Wilts, and became Prebendary and Canon Residentiary of Salisbury. His first work, pub. in 1789, was a little vol. containing 14 sonnets, which was received with extraordinary favour, not only by the general public, but by such men as Coleridge and Wordsworth. It may be regarded as the harbinger of the reaction against the school of Pope, in which these poets were soon to bear so great a part. B. pub. several other poems of much greater length, of which the best are The Spirit of Discovery (1805), and The Missionary of the Andes (1815), and he also enjoyed considerable reputation as an antiquary, his principal work in that department being Hermes Britannicus (1828). In 1807 he pub. a Life of Pope, in the preface to which he expressed some views on poetry which resulted in a rather fierce controversy with Byron, Campbell, and others. He also wrote a Life of Bishop Ken. B. was an amiable, absent-minded, and rather eccentric man. His poems are characterised by refinement of feeling, tenderness, and pensive thought, but are deficient in power and passion.
Other works are Coombe Ellen and St. Michael's Mount (1798), The Battle of the Nile (1799), The Sorrows of Switzerland (1801), St. John in Patmos (1833), etc.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Boswell, James

​Boswell, James (1740-1795).—Biographer, s. of Alexander B. of Auchinleck, Ayrshire, one of the judges of the Supreme Courts of Scotland, was ed. at the High School and Univ. of Edin., and practised as an advocate. He travelled much on the Continent and visited Corsica, where he became acquainted with the patriot General Paoli. Fortunately for posterity he was in 1763 introduced to Dr. Johnson, and formed an acquaintance with him which soon ripened into friendship, and had as its ultimate fruit the immortal Life. He was also the author of several works of more or less interest, including an Account of Corsica (1768), and Journal of Tour to the Hebrides (in the company of Johnson) (1786). Vain and foolish in an exceptional degree, and by no means free from more serious faults, B. has yet produced the greatest biography in the language. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. appeared in 1791, and at once commanded an admiration which has suffered no diminution since. But by this time a cloud had fallen upon the author. He had lost his excellent wife, his health had given way, the ​intemperance to which he had always been subject had mastered him, and he d. four years after the appearance of his great work. B. was called to the English as well as to the Scottish Bar, but his various foibles prevented his reaching any great success, and he had also vainly endeavoured to enter on a political career. The question has often been raised how a man with the characteristics of B. could have produced so unique a work, and has been discussed at length by Macaulay and by Carlyle, the former paradoxically arguing that his supreme folly and meanness themselves formed his greatest qualifications; the latter, with far deeper insight, that beneath these there lay the possession of an eye to discern excellence and a heart to appreciate it, intense powers of accurate observation and a considerable dramatic faculty. His letters to William Temple were discovered at Boulogne, and pub. 1857.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Boswell, Sir Alexander

​Boswell, Sir Alexander (1775-1822).—Antiquary and song writer, s. of James B., of Auchinleck, Johnson's biographer, was interested in old Scottish authors, some of whose works he reprinted at his private press. He wrote some popular Scotch songs, of which Jenny's Bawbee and Jenny dang the Weaver are the best known. B. d. in a duel with Mr. Stuart of Dunearn.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Bowdler, Thomas

​Bowdler, Thomas (1754-1825).—Editor of The Family Shakespeare, b. near Bath, s. of a gentleman of independent fortune, studied medicine at St. Andrews and at Edin., where he took his degree in 1776, but did not practise, devoting himself instead to the cause of prison reform. In 1818 he pub. his Family Shakespeare in 10 vols., "in which nothing is added to the original text, but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family." The work had considerable success, 4 editions having been pub. before 1824, and others in 1831, 1853, and 1861. It was, however, subjected to some criticism and ridicule, and gave rise to the expression "bowdlerise," always used in an opprobrious sense. On the other hand, Mr. Swinburne has said, "More nauseous and foolish cant was never chattered than that which would deride the memory or depreciate the merits of B. No man ever did better service to Shakespeare than the man who made it possible to put him into the hands of intelligent and imaginative children." B. subsequently essayed a similar enterprise in regard to Gibbon, which, however, was not so successful.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Boyd, Andrew Kennedy Hutchison

​Boyd, Andrew Kennedy Hutchison (1825-1899).—Miscellaneous writer, s. of Rev. Dr. B. of Glasgow, was originally intended for the English Bar, but entered the Church of Scotland, and was minister latterly at St. Andrews, wrote in Fraser's Magazine a series of light, chirping articles subsequently collected as the Recreations of a Country Parson, also several books of reminiscences, etc., written in a pleasant chatty style, and some sermons. He was D.D. and LL.D.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Mangles, James

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​MANGLES, F.R.S. (Commander, 1815. f-p., 15; h-p., 32.)
James Mangles entered the Navy, in March, 1800, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Maidstone frigate, Capt. Ross Donnelly; previously to following whom as Midshipman, in Nov. 1801, into the Narcissus 32, he served off the coast of France, escorted convoy home from Oporto, and made a voyage to Quebec. In the Narcissus, after cruizing in the North Sea and also in the Mediterranean, where he assisted at the capture, 8 July, 1803, of the French corvette L’Alcion of 16 guns and 96 men, he accompanied the expedition to the Cape of Good Hope; on her passage whither the Narcissus, besides effecting the capture of Le Prudent privateer, of 12 guns and 70 men, retook the English merchant-ship Horatio Nelson, mounting 22 guns, and drove on shore the Napoléon, privateer, of 32 guns and 250 men. Subsequently to the reduction of the Cape and the capture of the 46-gun frigate Volontaire, Mr. Mangles, who had been invested with the rank of Acting-Lieutenant, proceeded to the Rio de la Plata, whence we find him returning to England with the despatches announcing the conquest of Buenos Ayres. He had previously, 11 July, 1804, served with the boats of the Narcissus, Seahorse, and Maidstone, 10 in number, under the orders of Lieut. John Thompson, at the capture and destruction of 12 settees, lying at La Vandour, in the Bay of Hières, where the British, encountered by a tremendous fire of grape-shot and musketry, as well from the vessels themselves as from a battery and the houses of the town, sustained a loss of 4 men killed and 23 wounded. His appointments, after he left the Narcissus, Were – 26 Sept. 1806, to the Penelope 36, Capts. Wm. Robt. Broughton and John Dick, employed at first on the coast of Spain and at Halifax, and then on the West India station, where he aided at the reduction of Martinique in Feb. 1809 – in 1811-13, to the Boyne 98, and Ville de Paris 110, flag-ships in the Channel of Sir Harry Burrard Neale, under whom he was latterly in discharge of the duties of Signal-Lieutenant, and was present at the grand naval review held at Spithead – 5 Sept. 1814, as First, to the Duncan 74, bearing the flag in South America of Sir John Poo Beresford – and, in Jan. 1815, to the acting-command of the Racoon sloop, in which he returned to Plymouth, after escorting part of the Brazilian trade to Bristol. He was confirmed in his present rank 13 June, 1815, but has not been since afloat.
Commander Mangles published in Aug. 1823, in conjunction with the late Capt. Hon. Chas. Leonard Irby, R.N., a work entitled ‘Travels in Egypt, Nubia, Syria, and Asia Minor, in 1817-18.’ He is a F.R.S., and a Member of the London Geographical Society. Agents – Goode and Lawrence.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Mann, James Saumarez

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James Saumarez Mann entered the Navy in 1835; passed his examination 8 June, 1842; and after serving as Mate of the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings, and Pantaloon 10, commanded on the coast of Africa by Capt. Edm. Wilson, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 21 Oct. 1845, and appointed Additional of the Penelope steam-frigate, bearing the broad pendant on the latter station of Commodore Wm. Jones. He has been attached, since 15 Sept. 1846, to the Rodney 92, Capt. Edw. Collier, now in the Mediterranean.