The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales

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Author

More, Hannah, 1745-1833

Title

The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain, and Other Tales

Credits

Produced by David Edwards and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

Conduct of life -- Fiction

Category

Text

eBook-No.

31697

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31697

Release Date

March 18, 2010

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.Transcriber's note — The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain, and Other Tales.
3. 3.By Hannah More.
4. 4.CONTENTS — Tales for the Common People. — Stories for Persons of Middle Rank. — Allegories.
5. 5.TALES FOR THE COMMON PEOPLE.
6. 6.Advertisement.
7. 7.THE SHEPHERD OF SALISBURY PLAIN. — PART II.
8. 8.THE TWO SHOEMAKERS — PART II. THE APPRENTICE TURNED MASTER. — SHOWING HOW MR. STOCK BEHAVED TO HIS APPRENTICES. — HOW MR. STOCK GOT OUT OF DEBT. — HOW MR. STOCK CONTRIVED TO BE CHARITABLE WITHOUT ANY EXPENSE. — PART III. SOME ACCOUNT OF THE FROLICS OF IDLE JACK BROWN. — ALL IS NOT GOLD THAT GLISTENS. — THE MOUNTEBANK. — PART IV. JACK BROWN IN PRISON. — PART V. A DIALOGUE BETWEEN JAMES STOCK AND WILL SIMPSON, THE SHOEMAKERS, AS THEY SAT AT WORK, ON THE DUTY OF CARRYING RELIGION INTO OUR COMMON BUSINESS. — PART VI. DIALOGUE THE SECOND. ON THE DUTY OF CARRYING RELIGION INTO OUR AMUSEMENTS.
9. 9.THE HISTORY OF TOM WHITE, THE POST BOY. — PART I. — PART II. THE WAY TO PLENTY; OR, THE SECOND PART OF TOM WHITE. WRITTEN IN 1795, THE YEAR OF SCARCITY. — THE ROOF-RAISING. — THE SHEEP-SHEARING. — THE HARD WINTER. — THE WHITE LOAF. — THE PARISH MEETING. — RICE MILK. — RICE PUDDING. — A CHEAP STEW.
10. 10.THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. — ON RECOMMENDATIONS. — MRS. JONES'S EXHORTATION. — SUBSCRIPTIONS.
11. 11.THE HISTORY OF HESTER WILMOT. BEING THE SECOND PART OF THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. — PART II. THE NEW GOWN.
12. 12.BETTY BROWN, THE ST. GILES'S ORANGE GIRL; WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF MRS. SPONGE, THE MONEY-LENDER.
13. 13.BLACK GILES THE POACHER. CONTAINING SOME ACCOUNT OF A FAMILY WHO HAD RATHER LIVE BY THEIR WITS THAN THEIR WORK. — PART I. — THE UPRIGHT MAGISTRATE. — PART II. HISTORY OF WIDOW BROWN'S APPLE-TREE.
14. 14.TAWNEY RACHEL; OR, THE FORTUNE TELLER; WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF DREAMS, OMENS, AND CONJURORS.
15. 15.STORIES FOR PERSONS OF THE MIDDLE RANKS.
16. 16.THE HISTORY OF MR. FANTOM, (THE NEW FASHIONED PHILOSOPHER,) AND HIS MAN WILLIAM.
17. 17.THE TWO WEALTHY FARMERS, OR, THE HISTORY OF MR. BRAGWELL. — PART I.—THE VISIT. — PART II. A CONVERSATION. — PART III. THE VISIT RETURNED. — THE DANCE; OR, THE CHRISTMAS MERRY-MAKING; EXEMPLIFYING THE EFFECTS OF MODERN EDUCATION IN A FARMHOUSE. — SATURDAY NIGHT, OR THE WORKMEN'S WAGES. — SOME ACCOUNT OF A SUNDAY IN MR. BRAGWELL'S FAMILY. — PART IV. THE SUBJECT OF PRAYER DISCUSSED IN A MORNING'S RIDE. — PART V. THE GOLDEN LION. — SHOWING HOW MUCH WISER THE CHILDREN OF THIS GENERATION ARE THAN THE CHILDREN OF LIGHT. — PART VI. GOOD RESOLUTIONS. — PART VII. MRS. INCLE'S STORY.
18. 18.'TIS ALL FOR THE BEST. [13]
19. 19.A CURE FOR MELANCHOLY. [15] SHOWING THE WAY TO DO MUCH GOOD WITH LITTLE MONEY. — THE INFORMER. — PUBLIC HOUSES. — CHARITY SCHOOLS FOR SERVANTS.
20. 20.ALLEGORIES.
21. 21.THE PILGRIMS.
22. 22.THE VALLEY OF TEARS. A VISION; OR, BEAR YE ONE ANOTHER'S BURDENS. — THE WIDOW. — THE HUSBAND. — THE KIND NEIGHBOR. — THE CLERGYMAN. — THE NEGROES.
23. 23.THE STRAIT GATE AND THE BROAD WAY.
24. 24.PARLEY, THE PORTER: SHOWING HOW ROBBERS WITHOUT CAN NEVER GET INTO A HOUSE, UNLESS THERE ARE TRAITORS WITHIN.
25. 25.THE GRAND ASSIZES, ETC.; OR, GENERAL JAIL DELIVERY.
26. 26.THE SERVANT MAN TURNED SOLDIER; OR, THE FAIR-WEATHER CHRISTIAN.
27. 27.FOOTNOTES
28. 28.Transcriber's corrections

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