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The Daily Dispatch: July 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], Fifteenth day. (search)
g black dog fond of the water and of chivying cats; who is always laughing has a tremendous appetite, and once fought with a boy and came off victorious. The decline of the old-fashioned system of education, and the rise of seminarics and collegiate institutions, where young ladies attend lectures on the Odie force and the Therapeutic Cosmogony of Ancient Art, has made the tom boy fat girl an exceedingly rare specimen of feminity; but she is still occasionally to be met with — notably in Westmoreland boarding schools and in farm houses of the West. I lament the progressive extinction of the merry fat girl. She usually grew up to be a jolly, comfortable matron, with a tribe of sunny children, all as great romes as she had been. Her pickled walnuts were perfection. She was one of those admirable women who always gives you something to eat when you call upon them, and if you are neither hungry nor athirst, insist up on your carrying away a pot of preserves or a slice of bride cake wi