Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 22, 2025
He knew his sister-in-law to be a wordly-minded, frivolous woman, with many trivial ambitions; but in this instance he had misgivings that she might be right. What did he, John Merrick, know of select society? A poor man, of humble origin, he had wandered into the infantile, embryo West years ago and there amassed a fortune.
They told him they would take his word, and he pulled down his pants and said: "Well, you see I was detailed to attend to the calf, and I carried the calf up stairs, assisted by Bill Smith who is preaching in Chicago; got a soft thing five thousand a year, and a parsonage furnished, and keeps a team, and if one of those horses is not a trotter then I am no judge of horseflesh or of Bill, and if he don't put on an old driving coat and go out on the road occasionally and catch on for a race with some wordly-minded man, then I am another.
The fines, imprisonments, and stripes, liberally distributed by our pious forefathers, the popular antipathy, so strong that it endured nearly a hundred years after actual persecution had ceased, were attractions as powerful for the Quakers as peace, honor, and reward would have been for the wordly-minded.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking