I brought you something. It’s my sister’s coat. Itgets cold in Nashville in the wintertime.

Are you a traveling man he asked?

Children worked in the mills: "I will always believe that children are designed for green meadows and play, not for factories and cotton dust.

I could faintly smell the ocean. I imagined being one of the old oak trees standing there swaying in the wind and braving all sorts of weather. I pondered what they had seen in the past and what they might see in the future

The Baptist Church rejects man with wooden leg: It appears the Baptist preacher refused to baptize a veteran of the late war in the holy water- saying they only baptize flesh and blood, not wood.

I don't know where we are, but we'll soon find our way home!" Le avventure di Pinocchio

As my body recalled my soul, I began to quiver with pain and gasp for air.

On this night of the Harvest Moon. They tossed bones into the “Bone Fire” and asked the yellow moon to shine its protection over them. (Today we call it a "Bonfire")

Directly in front of me, crossing the street, I saw a woman laughing and walking arm in arm with two men. When she came to the curb, she lifted her skirt with both hands and vulgarly displayed a pair of indigo stockings.