Fall 2015, the Sabbaticalization: Day Seventeen

Onward! I think I need to do some recreational reading, though.

1) Reading: more of Burwick and all of George Waring's Children's Mission (1843), a collection of three rather conservative tales about children saving adults (that's not the conservative bit).  In tale #1, wreckers try to prevent the lighthouse keeper from lighting the lamp on the night of a storm, but his brave daughter does it and saves the day; she's rewarded with money, the family moves up in the world, and she finally marries into the landed gentry. (I.e.: Good working-class folks vs. those icky improvident criminal types.) In tale #2, an angry worker tries to burn down the haymows after the farmer dares to use a machine to bring in the hay; young Walter saves the day by managing to alert the adults.  (I.e.: Worker revolts are bad.)  In tale #3, the girl doesn't do anything except exist; however, her existence saves the sanity of a young man who had been led to believe that he killed his evil brother.  But he didn't! (I.e.: All things come right in the end for good people.)

2) Writing: 690+ words.

3) Miscellaneous: Fooled around a bit with an article I finished drafting over the summer, but which has what you might call organizational issues.