Casting my fortunes at Mrs. Thompson's, I soon became initiated into the etiquette and usage of that polite caravansary; and I now write of that era of two-pronged forks, and when “saveall” was the choicest dish, and the observances at the table not altogether Chesterfieldian.

Dayse F. Baker spent the first half to the 20th century educating the African-American community at the Douglas School in Farmington.

In 1743, at the early age of 27, he became Prefect of Li-shui, about 50 miles south-east of Nanking.

The nearest way seem'd best, o'er hoult and heath / We went, through deserts waste, and forests wide.