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Online Full Text:	Northern Illinois University
Series:	New York Weekly — v. 19 no. 40 — page 8
Subject / Tag:	Sketch
Part of:	New York Weekly, v. XIX, no. 40, August 25, 1864 (Issue)
Author:	Carlysle, Ethel
Date:	August 25, 1864
First Sentence:	It is one of those sultry days in August, when every object, animate and inanimate, seems gasping for breath; and in the little brown schoolhouse at Crampton Corner, Elsie Venner, the meek, little, dark-eyed teacher, was hearing the last recitation preparatory to closing school.
Last Sentence:	It has been said that there was never a house large enough for a mother and daughter-in-law, but the Howards were an exception, but whether it was from some peculiarity in the build of the house or in the disposition of its inmates, we do not pretend to say, but certain it is, that nowhere in the old Bay State was there a happier family than the one beneath the deacon's roof, and Elsie, like a weary dove just returned to the shelter of the home-nest, nestled closer each day into the hearts of those about her, her own filled to overflowing with the blissful happiness of being beloved.