... principals was extended to all the old and still charming numbers in the opera, encores being as plentiful tlie dramatic blackberries, and the whole performance a most conspicuous popular success, although we are bound to admit that vocal skill exhibited ...

... mere verbal cram of all instruction about milk, cheese, butter, leather, &c. Over 60 per cent had never seen growing corn, blackberries, or potatoes; 71 per cent did not know beans—even in Boston; and in 109 other topics primers generally presuppose the per ...