Lewie;
or,
The Bended Twig
by Cousin Cicely
AUTHOR OF THE “SILVER LAKE STORIES,” ETC. ETC.
“Train up this child for me, and I will give thee thy wages.”
“Mother! thy gentle hand hath mighty power,
For thou alone may’st train, and guide, and mould,
Plants that shall blossom with an odor sweet,
Or like the cursed fig-tree, wither and become
Vile cumberers of the ground.”
AUBURN:
ALDEN, BEARDSLEY & CO.
ROCHESTER:
WANZER, BEARDSLEY & CO.
1854.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by
ALDEN BEARDSLEY & CO.
In the Clerk’s Office for the Northern District of New York.
Contents
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BROOK FARM
Preface.
It seems to be thought that a preface or introduction of some sort isabsolutely necessary to a book; why, I do not know, unless it be that it looksrather abrupt to begin one’s story without a word as to the why orwherefore of its being written. This in the present case can be said veryshortly.
The principal events in the following story, the loved and petted child being,as it seemed, given back to life in answer to the mother’s importunatecry; the indulgence under which he grew up, an