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    The Story of the Toys
    The Story of the Toys
    The Story of the Toys
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    The Story of the Toys

    By Mary Harris Toy Dodge

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Story of the Toys - Mary Harris Toy Dodge

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      Title: The Story of the Toys

      Author: Mary Harris Toy Dodge

      Release Date: August 3, 2011 [EBook #36966]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STORY OF THE TOYS ***

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      Internet Archive)

      THE STORY OF

      THE TOYS

      BY

      MARY H. DODGE

      CAMBRIDGE

      PRINTED AT THE RIVERSIDE PRESS

      1909

      We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, the noble works that Thou didst in their days and in the old time before them.

      Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses ... let us run with patience the race that is set before us.

      FOREWORD

      This story of my mother's family was set down by her originally only to recall it to my mind when I might no longer listen to it as it fell so often from her own lips. It was written in the intervals of her ill-health, without copying or revision, and was not intended for publication. For this reason, she has dwelt more at length upon the history of her own family life than upon that of her sisters, and has purposely omitted all but a slight reference to the grandchildren and the events of later years, her intention being to record only what was outside my memory, leaving the rest to some other pen. The story, however, has proved to be of so much interest to the other members of the family that she was expecting to review it with me as soon as possible, in order to prepare it to be printed for them. Her sudden illness and death cut short her plans; but I have carried them out as closely as I could, and the little book is printed very nearly as she wrote it. Any errors or inaccuracies are mine and not hers.

      It has seemed to me that there could be no more fitting memorial of my mother among ourselves, than this story. Its style is appropriate to the subject and characteristic of herself—forceful, yet full of tender sentiment, ready wit and apt quotation of Scripture; while through it all, quite unconsciously to herself, there shine her cheery hopefulness, her rare unselfishness, and her beautiful faith in God. Since my father's death her health had been very much better, and she was looking forward to years of comfort; but, in December, 1908, she was suddenly seized with a serious heart trouble, and after a distressing illness of about three months, which she bore with her own brave patience, on the morning of February 27, 1909, she went to join her beloved.

      For those of us who have known her wonderful personality, no memorial is needed to increase our love and admiration of her; but to the younger members of the family, whose memory of her may be slight, I hope that this little book may give a glimpse of the beauty of her life, as well as of the noble souls whom she so worthily represented and whose blood we are proud to share.

      "They climbed the steep ascent of Heaven

      Through peril, toil and pain;

      O God, to us may grace be given

      To follow in their train."

      S. W. D.

      THE STORY OF THE TOYS

      I wish to preface this memorial by a little sketch of Cornwall, especially those parts of it most nearly connected with our family history. I have gathered the materials for it from a little book on Cornwall, by Mr. Tregellas.

      The long coast-line of Cornwall, the most southern and western county of England, has been, like Italy, compared in shape to a Wellington boot, the iron heel of which is the mass of serpentine rock which forms the southern point of the Lizard, and the foot that part which lies between Mounts Bay and Land's End. The instep is at St. Ives Bay, and the body of the boot constitutes the main portion of the county, the highest part toward the eastern end forming the Bodmin moors. Along the northern coast, the mural cliffs, against which the Atlantic rollers forever break, are in marked contrast to the tamer and more sylvan scenery of the south and west shores; while across the low-lying lands between St. Ives and Mounts Bay the sea often threaten to meet in the spring tides.

      The climate of Cornwall, owing to its situation, is so remarkable as to deserve notice. The month of January at Penzance is as warm as at Florence or Madrid, and July is as cool as at St. Petersburg. There is scarcely a country in the world with a climate so mild and equable.

      The people are ardent and vivacious, self-reliant and versatile. It is no uncommon thing for a Cornishman to build his own house, make his own shoes, be both fisherman and miner, and, possibly, small shop-keeper besides; and wherever the Cornish miner emigrates, he is pretty sure to take the lead in enterprise and danger.

      Wilkie Collins says: As a body of men they are industrious, intelligent, sober, and orderly, neither soured by hard work, nor depressed by harsher privations; and the old poet Taylor, in 1649, writes: Cornwall is the compleate and repleate Home of Abundance, for high, churlish hills and affable, courteous people. The country hath its share of huge stones, mighty rocks, noble free gentlemen, bountiful housekeepers, strong and stout men, handsome and beautiful women.

      Many curious old customs linger in Cornwall, among them the ceremony of cutting the neck, or last few ears of corn at harvest time, the lighting of bonfires on the hills at St. John's Eve, and the furry or Flora dance at Helston, on the eighth of May. Among the peculiar dishes of the Cornish cuisine, prominent is the pasty, the almost universal dinner of the working class. It is a savory compound of meat and potatoes, inclosed in a crescent-shaped crust; but one must be a Cornishman to appreciate this dish thoroughly. The variety of pies is truly marvelous. It has been said that the devil himself would be put into a pie if he were caught in Cornwall. Most of them are richly saturated with clotted cream, a real Cornish dainty, which is very popular, as

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