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THE WIDOW BEDOTT PAPERS
BY FRANCIS M. WHITCHER.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALICE B. NEAL.

One volume 12mo., with 8 spirited illustrations by Dallas and Orr.

Price $1 25.

Extract from a Letter to the Author by the late Joseph C. Neal

“Our readers talk of nothing else, and almost despise `Neal' if the `Widow' be not
there. An excellent critic in these matters, said to me the other day, that he regarded
them as the best Yankee papers yet written, and such is indeed the general sentiment.
I know, for instance of a lady who, for several days after reading one of them, was
continually, and often at moments the most inopportune, bursting forth into fits of violent
laughter, and, believe me, that you, gifted with such powers, ought not to speak disparag
ingly of the gift which thus brings wholesome satire home to every reader.”

CONTENTS.

Hezekiah Bedott.

The Widow Essays Poetry.

Widow Jenkins' Animosity.

Mr. Crane Walks in.

The Widow Discourses of Pumpkins.

The Widow Loses her Beau.

Mr. Crane about to Propose.

Mr. Crane Walks out.

The Widow “Sets her Cap.”

The Widow Resolves to leave Wiggletown.

The Widow Trades with a Pedlar.

The Widow and Aunt Maguire Discourse on
Various Topics.

The Widow having Heard that Elder Sniffles
is Sick, Writes to him.

The Widow Resorts to Elder Sniffles for
Religious Instruction.

The Widow concludes to Publish.

The Widow Prepares to Receive Elder Sniffles
on Thanksgiving-Day.

The Widow Retires to a Grove in the rear
of Elder Sniffles' House.

The Widow Writes to her Daughter, Mr.
Jupiter Smith.

The Rev. Mrs. Sniffles Abroad.

The Rev. Mrs. Sniffles at Home.

The Rev. Mrs. Sniffles Expresses her Sentiments
in Regard to the Parsonage.

Aunt Maguire's Experience.

Aunt Maguire's Description of the Donation
Party.

Aunt Maguire Treats of the Contemplated
Sewing Society at Scrabble Hill.

Aunt Maguire Continues her Account of
the Sewing Society.

Aunt Maguire's Visit to Slabtown.

Visit to Slabtown Continued.

Mrs. Maguire's Account of Deacon Whipple.

Mrs. Mudlaw's Recipe for Potatoe Pudding.

Morning Calls; or, Every Body's Particular
Friend.

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