Now and then a new poem by Whittier, or Bryant, or some other of the small galaxy of poets who justly were becoming the nation's pride, would appear and be read aloud to Mary as she prepared their meals, or washed the dishes or ironed small garments, while Betty listened with intent eyes and ears, as she helped her mother or tended the baby.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
Finally, the wrinkles will be ironed out and the horizon will be brightened.
"Dollars and Sense"
Col. Wm. C. Hunter
Trained by main force; broken, not bent; heavily ironed with an object on which I was never consulted and which was never mine; shipped away to the other end of the world before I was of age, and exiled there until my father's death there, a year ago; always grinding in a mill I always hated; what is to be expected from me in middle life?
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
