The Edward T. LeBlanc Memorial Dime Novel Bibliography

Item - "A Home Destroyed"

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Online Full Text: Stanford Digital Repository
Series: New York Weekly v. 36 no. 18 — page 4
Subject / Tag: Poem
Part of: New York Weekly, v. XXXVI, no. 18, March 14, 1881 (Issue)
Author: Miller, Maud, -1901
Date: March 14, 1881
Edition Description: [A touching scene took place in the police court one day last week. A husband in tears, a drunken wife about to be sentenced to the Island, while between then stood their only child Robbie, five years old, who looked at his father and said: "Don't cry, papa, it makes me feel so bad."]
First Sentence: "Dear papa, mamma, don't you cry,
Last Sentence: Dear Robbie, such as you.

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