uaker meeting, 136
Queer contrast of language, 61

Railways and their influence, 142
Ramsay, Dean, and others, Reminiscences of, 10
Reader, Murray's English, 137
Reading parties, 142
Refinement of certain classes, 133
Reputed apparition, 192
Respect for the clergy, 29
"Retort courteous," 27
Rev. Dr. Dana, 128
Rev. Mr. Milton, 124
Rev. Dr. Morse, 131
Rev. Mr. Murray, 122
Rev. Dr. Spring, 29
Richard, Uncle, 162

Sabbath, how kept, 120
Sailing adventure, 7
"Salt," ancient, 3
Saturday and Sunday evenings, 30
Scenery on the river, 5
School books, etc., 137
Schoolmaster, a shrewd, 140
Scott's Autobiography, 10
Scott's reply to certain critics, 159
Scottish domestic, cool and faithful, 104
"Scrupulous" congregation, 122
Scrupulous shoemaker, 48
Severe winters, 1
Shipbuilding, etc., 5
Silver Greys, 56
Singular companion, 168
Singular night adventure, 87
Snow-storm in old times, 2
Social security, 85
Stage-house, 53
St. James's, 143
Story of an apparition, 179
Story of bold youngster, 165
Stove in Church, 118
Street fights of boys, 10
Striking adventure of Rufus King, 135
Surprise of Thackeray, 9
Swett and Schwedt, 30
Swindling failure, 103
Sympathetic young lady, 17

Tennyson's "Charge at Balaklava," 28
Text instead of sermon, 119
"Thanks be to Praise!," 202
Thanksgiving, 105
Timber and shipbuilding, 5
"Tom" Campbell, 27
Topsfield spectre, 177
Town-meeting and resolute chairman, 96
Trade, internal, of the town, 67
Traders, small, 67
Treating in hay-time, 109
Trees of great beauty, 17
Triangular Market Square, 66
Tyng Family, 24

Uncle Richard, 162
United States after a runaway, 58
Unterrified clergyman, 166

Verges and Dogberry, 198
Vulgarian of the nouveaux riches, 62

Wages, low rate of, 23
Walsh, Michael, 25
What a "project" is or was, 174
Wheelwright, William, 32
Whipping-post, 123
Wigglesworth, Colonel, 36
Winters, severe formerly, 1
Witchcraft, and Uncle Richard's opinion of it, 167
Wood's account of the aristocracy., 21

Yankee acuteness, 141
Young persons sent to the town for education, 134

Transcriber's Notes:

Archaic, variable, and misspelled words and punctuation
inconsistancies have been preserved as printed in all of the
quoted material with one exception. This includes all poetry,
quotations, lette