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diff --git a/29273.txt b/29273.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3608d38 --- /dev/null +++ b/29273.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1655 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Complete Edition of the Works of Nancy +Luce, by Nancy Luce + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: A Complete Edition of the Works of Nancy Luce + +Author: Nancy Luce + +Release Date: June 30, 2009 [EBook #29273] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WORKS OF NANCY LUCE *** + + + + +Produced by Meredith Bach and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + + + + + +A COMPLETE EDITION + +OF THE + +WORKS OF NANCY LUCE, + +OF WEST TISBURY, DUKES COUNTY, MASS., + +CONTAINING + +God's Words--Sickness--Poor Little Hearts--Milk--No +Comfort--Prayers--Our Saviour's Golden +Rule--Hen's Names, Etc. + + + +NEW BEDFORD: +MERCURY JOB PRESS. +1875. + + + + +COMPLETE WORKS +OF +NANCY LUCE. + + + + +GOD'S WORDS. + + + The Lord has put down + In the Bible; He says: + The sin in the world,-- + It grieves him to his heart. + + The Lord he forbiddeth + All cruelty to dumb creatures, + And helpless human too. + He will cut the sinners asunder hereafter. + +God says: "Ye shall not afflict any helpless or fatherless child. If +thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will +surely hear their cry." + + Human, they cannot get into heaven, + Without they do God's commandments, in deeds, words, and thoughts, + To human, and dumb creatures too. + Consider how you would feel yourselves to be crueled. + + The greatest sin is to cruel the poor harmless dumb creatures, + They cannot speak, nor help themselves, + The next sin is to cruel sick human, + The next sin is to cruel any who cannot help themselves. + + The Lord give human his word, + To do justice to the afflicted and needy, + To all poor sufferers, human and dumb creatures too, + To be tender and kind to all. + + O may our sympathizing hearts, + In generous pleasures know, + Kindly to share in others' joy, + And weep for others' woe. + + O Charity, thou heavenly grace, + All tender, soft and kind; + A friend to all the living race, + To all that's good inclined. + + The Lord takes pleasure in them, + Which will not hurt dumb creatures, nor human, + In not any way whatever, + Have holy hearts, tender and kind. + + The wicked shall their triumph see, + And gnash their teeth in agony, + They and their envy, pride, and spite, + Sink down to everlasting punishment. + + The full rank of evil one wants all to be cruel, + To the poor harmless dumb creatures, + And cruel to sick human too, + And take the advantage and cruel all. + + The full rank of evil one wants all to be murders, + And lie, rob, cheat, and steal, + And deceit, and contraryness, and so on, + And plague every body they can. + + The good God of heaven, + Will cast off such sinners, + To their double rank, + Punishment hereafter. + + Poor thoughtless sinners, + Going on in sin, + Minding the evil one, + Their punishment they will have hereafter. + + God has given human his word, + To have no evil conduct, + And no evil speaking, + And no evil thoughts. + + God wants all to be tender and kind, + Soft be our hearts, their misery to feel, + And swift + Our hands to aid. + + This world a place of misery, + Some of the worst of sinners have destroyed my head, + I cannot bear it up, O my misery, + Their heart is made of stone, to do such a thing. + +O Lord, my God of heaven, I pray for Thy holy spirit to go in all the +needy hearts in the whole wide world around. O that they may be tender +and kind to all the poor harmless dumb creatures, and sick human too, +and others too. The sinners will have their punishment according to +their sins, if they will not have the Holy Spirit. + +O Lord, my God of heaven, I pray Thee, enable me what to do, and what +to say, and what to think, day after day. O Lord, my God, be with me. + + Love God with all your soul and strength, + With all your heart and mind, + Be faithful, just, and kind, + Have tender feelings in your heart. + + Deal with another as you'd have + Another deal with you, + What you're unwilling to receive + Be sure you never do. + + The wicked shall see it, and grieve away, + And gnash with their teeth, and melt away, + The desire of the wicked shall perish away, + And away they will go, to punishment great. + + They slay the helpless, + They murder the fatherless, + God will hold up the fatherless child, + If it is His own. + + O God, the father of the fatherless, + Have mercy on me, + Deliver me from the wicked. + God says, depart from evil, and good they must do. + +Prepare ye the way of the Lord, and make your paths straight. + +Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father in heaven also is merciful. + +Thus saith the Lord of hosts: turn ye now from your evil ways, and from +your evil doings. Thus saith the Lord of hosts; consider your ways. + + I am cast down to the dust of the earth, + With trouble, trials, and sickness, + I am grieved to my heart for sin in the world, + For the poor harmless dumb creatures, + And for the best human too. + + * * * * * + +LINES COMPOSED BY NANCY LUCE ABOUT POOR LITTLE TWEEDLE TEDEL BEEBEE +PINKY, WHEN SHE WAS A LITTLE CHICKEN. AND YOU WILL FIND MORE READING IN +THE BOOK ABOUT HER. + + When poor little heart Pinky, + Was about six weeks old, + She was taken with the chicken distemper, + Chickens died off all over this island. + + She was catching grasshoppers, and crickets, + In the forenoon smart, + At twelve o'clock she was taken sick, + And grew worse. + + At one o'clock she was past opening her eyes, + And could not stand, + Her body felt cold + And stiff to my hand. + + I give her a portion of epsom salts, + With a little black pepper in it, + I wept over her that afternoon, + I prayed to the Lord to save me her life. + + I sat up that night, + With her in my lap, + Till eleven o'clock that night, + Then she seemed to be better. + + Then I put her in a thing, a good soft bed, + And lay down and spoke to her often, + Say how do you do, little dear, she answered me quick, + Then I knew she was better. + + The next day I gave her + Warm water to drink, + The third day she was herself, + Got well and smart. + + She remained well four years, + And laid me pretty eggs, + Then the Lord thought best to take her from the evil to come, + Without being sick but a very little while. + + When I was raising poor little dear in my lap, + And it rained on the window, + She would look at the rain, + And put her head under my cape. + + And take it out every once in a while, + And look at the rain, + And put it under my cape again, + Up most to my shoulder. + + Poor cunning little dear, + My heart is broken for her, + She and I loved each other so well, + And she had more than common wit. + + That dear little heart, + Remembered four years, + Ever since she was a little chicken, + I know it by many things. + + Her dear friend is left in trouble, and undergo sickness too. + Them that knew me once, know--me--no--more, + Her death renewed me to seek for God, + To land in heaven hereafter. + +NANCY LUCE +West Tisbury, Dukes County, Mass., 1872. + + + + +PRAYER. + + + Hear my prayer, O Lord, my God of heaven, + Grant me I beseech Thee, O Lord, + Send Thy holy spirit into all the needy hearts, + In the whole wide world around, + Convince them of sin, give them the holy spirit, + O that they may be kind and tender + To the poor harmless dumb creatures, + They cannot speak, nor help themselves, + O Lord, prepare the inhabitants of the earth + To live in this world and in the world to come. + O Lord, I beseech Thee, protect me from committing sin, + O Lord, help me to watch and pray, + O Lord, I give Thee thanks for what blessings I have, + O Lord, can thou deliver me from sickness, trouble and trials? + O Lord, stand my friend in this world and in the world to come. + O Lord, that the professing inhabitants may not fall back + And go to sinning again. O that they may be true Christians, + The holy spirit, love and tender kindness for dumb creatures + And human too, love God and land in heaven, + O Lord, enable me to have the holy spirit all the days of my life, + O Lord, grant me I beseech Thee, + I pray for Thy kingdom to come, to destroy all sin, + For the poor harmless dumb creatures, + And for sick human too. + And for all the troubled in the wide world round, + Human and dumb creatures too, + For thine is the kingdom and the glory forever. Amen. + + + + +SICKNESS. + + + Sickness distressing, by trouble and trials, + Walk, stir, or do a little in the house, + It hurts me very bad, + And I cannot ride to have comfort. + + My head a misery place all of my time, + And part of my time in great misery, + And noise sets my head + In a dreadful condition. + + Most nothing hurts me, + And most nothing beats me out, + I am dreadful worn down with long sickness, + And trials, and sometimes trouble too. + + Sick I do feel all my whole time, + And misery feelings from head to feet. + A number of years, + I have undergone great sickness. + + Some of my diseases are cured a few years ago, + And some of them helped some, + And some of them patched along, + And some of them not any better at all, + But I am dreadful wore down with long sickness. + + A common thing in my sickness, + Milk my cow, take care of my hens, + In such misery, I felt as if I must fall at every step, + But I must do it, I must do it. + + Oh, Thou who dry'st the mourner's tear, + How dark this world would be. + If when deceived and wounded here, + We could not fly to Thee. + + When sore afflictions press me down, + I need thy quickning powers, + Thy word that I have rested on, + Shall help my heaviest hours. + + + + +POOR LITTLE HEARTS. + + + A sketch of two Poor little Banties, + They died with old age, over twelve years ago, + Poor little Ada Queetie died over thirteen years ago, in 1858. + Poor little Beauty Linna died over twelve years ago, in 1859. + O my Poor deceased little Ada Queetie, + She knew such a sight, and her love and mine, + So deep in our hearts for each other, + The parting of her and her undergoing sickness and death, + O heart rending! + + She and I could never part, + Do consider the night I was left, + What I underwent, no tongue could express, + Weeping the whole night through. + + Poor little Ada Queetie's sickness and death, + Destroyed my health at an unknown rate, + With my heart breaking and weeping, + I kept fire going night after night, to keep Poor little + dear warm, + I kept getting up nights to see how she was, + And see what I could do for her. + + Three her last days and nights, + She breathed the breath of life here on earth, + She was taken down very sick, then I was up all night long, + The second night I was up till I was going to fall, + Then I fixed her in her box warm, close by the fire, + Put warm clothes under, over and around, + And left fire burning and lay down, with all my clothes on, + A very little while, and got up and up all the time. + The third night I touched no bed at all, + Poor little heart, she was struck with death at half past + eleven o'clock. + She died in my arms at twelve o'clock at night, O heart rending! + I could been heard to the road, from that time till daylight, + No tongue could express my misery of mind. + She had more than common wit, + And more than common love, + Her heart was full of love for me, + O do consider my Poor little heart. + + She was my dear and nearest friend, to love and pity me, + And to believe that I was sick, + She spoke to me, and looked at me most all the time, + And could not go from me. + + Poor little heart, she used to jump down to the door to go out, + She would look around, and call to me to go with her, + She found I could not go, she would come in again, + She loved her dear friendy so well she could not go out + and leave me. + + O my dear beloved little heart, she was my own heart within me, + When she was well and I was sick, and made out to sit in my + chair, + She knew I was sick, because I didn't say but a very little + to her. + + She would stand close to me all the time, + And speak to me, I could not take her eyes off my face, + And look as grieved as it her heart must break, + She was so worried for me, + And if I was forced to lay down, + Then she was more worried than ever. + + When Poor little heart happened to be out the room, + And I was forced to lay down, + She would come and peek at me, and take on, + As if her heart must break, + And come straight to me and lament my cause, + And would not go from me, + Her feelings was so deeply rooted in her heart for me. + + They was brought from Chilmark to New Town, + And remained there one year + For me to get able to take care of them. + And then they was brought to me. + + Poor little Ada Queetie, + She used to do everything I told her, + Let it be what it would, + And knew every word I said to her. + + If she was as far off as across the room, + And I made signs to her with my fingers, + She knew what it was, + And would spring quick and do it. + + If she was far off and I only spoke her name, + She would be sure to run to me quick, + Without wanting anything to eat. + + She would do 54 wonderful cunning things, + Poor Sissy would do 39, + They would do part of them without telling, + And do all the rest of them with telling. + + I use to dream distressing dreams, + About what was coming to pass, + And awoke making a dreadful noise, + And Poor little Ada Queetie was making a mournful noise, + She was so worried for me, + Then I would speak to her and say: little dear, + Nothing ails you friendy. + Then she would stop and speak a few pretty words to me. + She use to shake my cape, with all her strength and might, + Every time I told her, + They would both put one foot into my hand, + Every time I told them, + They would both scratch my hand, and peck on my cap, + Every time I told them. + + When some one used to happen to shut them out the room, + They would take on at a dreadful rate, + I let them straight in, and as soon as the person was gone, + Poor little Ada Queetie would not keep out of my lap, + Squeezing me close up, talking to me, + And Poor little Beauty Linna would not keep off my shoulders, + With her face squeezed close to my face, talking to me, + They was so glad they got back in this room with me, + And I wasn't hurt and carried away. + + Consider those dear hearts, that loved me so well, + And depended all on me to be their true friend. + + Poor little Beauty Linna, departed this life, + My hands around her by the fire, my heart aching, + I wept steady from that time, till next day, + I took the best of care of her, days and nights, + I did everything could be done, + I did the best I could do, + I sat up nights with her, till it made me very lame, + Then I fixed her in her bed, warm, close by the fire, + Put warm clothes under, over and around, + And left fire burning and lay down with all my clothes on, + And got up very often with her, and sat up as long as I could. + I never took off none of my clothes for 18 days and nights. + + Poor little heart, never can call me back no more, + When I go out the room, + She did it as long as she was able, + For eight months after Poor Sissy's decease, + She would not let me go out the room, + Called me straight back, as soon as I went out. + + I fed her with a teaspoon in her sickness, + Good milk and nutmeg, and good porridge, + And so I did Poor Sissy. + + I made fire days and nights, + To keep Poor Beauty Linna warm, + The day before Poor little dear was taken away, + She opened her eyes and looked me up into my face, + For the last time, O heart melting, + Poor little Beauty Linna, + She could not have the wind to blow on her, + All her last summer through, + She would keep out the wind. + + A mournful scene it was to me, + To see their breath depart, + Consider soon my time will come, + And I must follow on. + + Anxiety of mind will keep any one up and doing, + If they have a friend sick, + If their own health is very miserable. + + No one here on earth can know, + But only them that knows, + How hard it is to undergo trouble and sickness. + + When I am taken away, + I must be buried to the east side, + Of my Poor little dears' graves. + + Poor little Beauty Linna, she remembered Poor Sissy, + For eight months after Poor Sissy's decease, + I know it by many things. + + They would always have the best of good cake, + And best of good wheat, brought from the west. + + When they was both alive, and I had fire in the north room, + And it came up too cold for them, + They would go in the east room, and call me to come to them, + They would stand side and side, and look at the fire place, + and look at me, + Deaning me to make fire there for them, + Then I would make fire there, and they and I sat down + together, + Now they are gone and I am left broken hearted. + + When Poor little Ada Queetie + Departed this life, + That was the first cause + Of my seeking for God. + The path of sorrow, + And that path alone, + Leads to the land + Where sorrows are unknown. + + The sick, the troubled, God hears when they complain, + And all the sons of grief, + With tender heart, delights to bless, + And love to give relief. + + It is not every one that says, Lord, Lord, + That can enter the Kingdom of heaven, + It is them that doeth God's commandments, + In deeds, words, and thoughts, + To human and dumb creatures too, + And love God and hate the evil one. + + + + +MILK. + + +You needn't talk against milk, if you make your victuals of water, what +you put with water won't go half so far, and awful eating and distress +ailing folks, and no nourishment to it. Make your victuals of milk, and +what you put with milk will go twice as far, and good eating and +nourishment to it. Milk is cooling to health, and strengthening, other +victuals distress my stomach, because I am out of health; milk agrees +with me, other victuals distress me. I cannot eat bread, &c., I must +have milk to live on or go without eating till I die. + + + + +NO COMFORT. + + + You don't know how hard it is to me, + Because I cannot ride somewhere, + I cannot ride nor walk out, impossible yet, + I used to ride once in a while, + On a canter, galop, and run, + O what comfort that was. + + I have had horses to run with me, + So that the ground looked + All in black and white streaks. + There never was a horse + That ever started me from their back, + Now I am deprived from all comforts of life. + + Poor, sick I, days are very dark, + To undergo sickness, + And no comforts of life, + I hope to have comfort in heaven. + + O how much better to go to house of mourning, + Than to go to house of plays and frolicking, + Sorrow is better than laughter, + By sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. + O how I love the Holy law, + 'Tis daily my delight, + And thence my meditations draw, + Divine advice by night. + + Touched with sympathy within, + Christ knows our feeble frame, + He knows what sore temptations mean, + For he has felt the same. + + Restraining prayer we cease to fight, + Prayer makes the Christian's armor bright, + And Satan trembles when he sees, + The weakest saint upon his knees. + + Afflictions, though they seem severe, + In mercy oft are sent, + They stopped the prodigal's career, + And forced him to repent. + + Prayer makes the darkened cloud withdraw, + Prayer climbs the ladder Jacob saw, + Gives exercise to faith and love, + Brings every blessing from above. + + The Lord will sustain our weakest powers, + With his almighty arm, + And watch our most unguarded hours, + Against surprising harm. + + Poor, weak, and worthless though I am, + I have a rich, almighty friend, + Jesus, the Saviour, is his name, + He freely loves and without end. + + Human, God is love and truth, + God requires human to consider dumb creatures, + What a site of wit they have got, + And what a site of love they have got for one another, + And love for human too, if they are kind to them, + If human are cruel to dumb creatures in any way, + Or let them suffer in any way, + God will cast off such sinners, to everlasting punishment. + God requires human to take it to their own case, + If they was dumb creatures, could not speak, nor help + themselves, + And human crueled them in any way, + Or let them suffer in any way. + Consider what you would undergo to be crueled, + If you could not help yourselves. + God requires human to leave off all their sins, + And pray to the Lord with truth, to take away their heart + of stone, + And give them a good heart, the Holy spirit, + Prepare them to both live, and die, + Without true repentance, they will go to punishment, + According to their sins, + The thoughts are the ground work of all sin, + And ground work of all goodness too, + If any one is cruel to dumb creatures, they cannot get + into Heaven, + They have not love of God in their hearts, + They will go to punishment hereafter. + + + + +PRAYERS. + + +Our Father in Heaven, O Lord, grant me I beseech Thee, send Thy Holy +spirit to all the wicked inhabitants in this world, that they may see +the evil of their ways, and have the Holy spirit, true Christians, love +and tenderness for the poor harmless dumb creatures, and human too, love +and serve the Lord all their days, and land in heaven hereafter. O that +the professing inhabitants may not fall back, and go to sinning again, O +that they may be true Christians, the Holy Spirit, love and tenderness +for the poor harmless dumb creatures, and human too, love and serve the +Lord all their days, and then land in Heaven, O grant me I beseech Thee, +enable me to have the Holy spirit all my days, and not fall back, and +love and serve the Lord all the days of my life, then land in Heaven. O +Lord protect me from committing sin, O Lord, help me to watch, and pray, +O Lord, enable me to put my whole trust in Thee, that I may be protected +from all harm in this world, and in the world to come, O Lord, I beseech +Thee, help me through this world of misery, and land me in Heaven, where +no sickness, no trouble, no trials, distress me no more, Come quickly, +Lord Jesus, come, and put a stop to all sin, Thy Kingdom come, Thy will +be done on earth as it is done in Heaven, For Thine is the Kingdom, the +power and the glory forever. Amen. + + This world a place of misery, + I am grieved to my heart, + For sin in the world. + +Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. + +Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake: for theirs +is the Kingdom of Heaven. + +The Lord give human his word to do justice to the afflicted and needy, +to all the poor sufferers, human, and dumb creatures too, to be kind, +and tender to all. + +God forbiddeth all profaning of any thing, thereby God maketh himself +known. + +God says, all the horns of the wicked will be cut off, but the horns of +the righteous will be exalted. + +Hear my prayer, O Lord, my God of Heaven, and let my cry come unto Thee, +Grant me I beseech Thee, O Lord, send Thy Holy loving kindness into the +whole wide world around, and protect all the poor harmless dumb +creatures from all cruelty till the world ends, O that I may praise Thee +for Thy Holy loving kindness, as long as I have breath to breathe. O +Lord, I beseech Thee, send Thy Holy loving kindness and protect me from +all cruelty, from the wicked, as long as I live. O there I may praise +Thee as long as I live. O Lord, grant me, I beseech Thee, send thy Holy +loving kindness and protect all the good folks from cruelty from the +wicked, till the world ends. O that I may praise Thee as long as I live. +O Lord, land me in the best place in Heaven. O deliver me from sickness, +trouble, trials. The Lord is nigh unto them that call upon Him in truth. +O God, my heart is fixed, I will praise Thee. The Lord will maintain the +cause of the afflicted. The Lord is righteous, he will cut asunder the +cords of the wicked. Amen. + + + + +POOR LITTLE HEART. + + +Poor Tweedle, Tedel, Bebbee, Pinky. She is gone. She died June 19th, +1871, at quarter past 7 o'clock in the evening, with my hands around +her, aged 4 years. I never can see Poor little dear again. + + Poor Pinky, that dear little heart, + She is gone, sore broke in her, + Died in distress, Poor little heart, + O it was heart rending. + + O sick I do feel ever since, + I am left broken hearted, + She was my own heart within me, + She had more than common wit. + + Poor Pinky's wit, and she loved me so well, + Them was the reasons, + I set so much by her, + And I raised her in my lap too. + + She is taken from the evil to come, + If I had died and left her, + She would mourn for me, + And suffer, and die for me. + + I wept all that night, and by spells ever since, + To God I cried, He supported me, + God has held me up, through all my trials, + And all I have to lean upon, in every cause. + + If I had died and left her, to mourn, and suffer, + And could have known I should die and leave her, + I should have felt a great deal worse to leave her, + Than I do now, that she is gone before me. + + I must be as reconciled as I can, + To part with Poor little dear, + All I have to comfort me is, + She is taken from the evil to come. + + I hope I never shall have a hen, to set so much by again, + From over sea, she was brought to me, one week old, + I raised her in my lap, + She loved me dreadful dearly. + + She would jam close to me, + Every chance she could get, + And talk to me, and want to get in my lap, + And set down close. + + And when she was out from me, + If I only spoke her name, + She would be sure to run to me quick, + Without wanting anything to eat. + + She placed her whole affections on me; + When she was alive, and saw me to the east window, + She would put her head through the pickets, + And look at me, as long as she could see my face. + + She had more wit than any hen I ever knew, + Poor, sweet little dear, down in her silent grave, + Turning to dust, O heart rending, + I never can see her again. + + God is supporting me under my trouble, + He took away my dear friend, + He has done it for the best, + It is all right and just. + + But O it was heart rending, + For that Poor little heart, + To undergo death, + And for me to part with her. + + When overwhelmed with grief, + My heart within me dies, + Helpless, and far from all relief, + To heaven I lift my eyes. + + This world a place of misery, + O Lord land me in heaven, + That Holy, happy place, + When I bid adieu to this vain world. + + Blessed are they, + Which have feelings to melt, + For the poor harmless dumb creatures, + And for sick human too. + + And for all the troubled, + In the wide world around, + Human and dumb creatures too, + Great sympathy and love, they will have from the Lord. + + I must be as reconciled as I can, + To part with Poor little dear, + It is all for the best, + From the evil to come. + + She was sick and died very sudden, + Only two hours and a quarter, + About fifteen minutes dying. + Bloody water pouring out her mouth, + And her breath agoing, Poor little heart. + + O dreadful melancholy I do feel for my dear, + She laid eggs till three days before her death, + She laid the most eggs, this four years around, + Than any hen I have on earth. + + Soon my turn will come, and I must follow on, + I hope to land on that blest shore, + Where no sickness, no trouble, no trials, + Distress me no more. + + My heart is fix'd on Thee, my God, + I rest my hope on Thee alone, + Christ wept so much himself, + He counts, and treasures up my tears. + + Prayer an answer will obtain, + Through the Lord a little delay; + None shall seek his name in vain, + None be empty sent away. + + The Lord takes pleasure in the just, + Whom sinners treat with scorn, + The meek, that lie despised in dust, + Salvation shall adorn. + + Blest are the meek who stand afar, + From rage and passion, noise and war, + God will secure their happy state, + And plead their cause against the great. + + To God I cried when troubles rose, + He heard me and subdued my foes, + He did my rising fears control, + And strength diffused through all my soul. + + Consider how distressing sickness is to undergo, + And how distressing in many ways, + My parents' sickness, a number of years, + Caused them to sell cows, oxen, horses, and sheep, + English meadow, clear land, and wood land, + Consider how distressing sickness is in many ways. + + + + +OUR SAVIOUR'S GOLDEN RULE. + + + Be you to others kind and true, + As you'd have others be to you, + And never do nor say to them, + Whate'er you would not take again. + + + + +HEN'S NAMES. + + +TEEDIE LETE, PHEBEA PEADEO, +LETOOGIE TICKLING, JAATIE JAFY, +REANTY FYFANTE, SPEACKEKEY LEPURLYO, +PONDY LILY, KALALLYPHE ROSEIEKEY, +TEALSAY MEBLOOMIE, LEVENDY LUDANDY, +APPE KALEANYO, MELEANY TEATOLLY, +ATERRYRYREE ROSEENDY, VAILATEE PINKOATIE. + + * * * * * + +Hear my prayer, O Lord, my God of Heaven, Grant me I beseech Thee O +Lord, I pray for Thy Kingdom to come, to ease this misery world, it is +now a place of misery, for some human, and some poor harmless dumb +creatures, Thy Kingdom come, be no more dying, no sickness, no crying, +no misery of no kind, The sinners have their punishment for their sins. + +Thy Kingdom come. Amen. + +NANCY LUCE. +_West Tisbury, Dukes Co., Mass.,_ 1871. + + + + +HENS--THEIR DISEASES AND CURE. + + +Human, do understand how to raise up sick hens to health. Some folks do +not know how to doctor hens, they doctor them wrong, it hurts them, and +it is dreadful cruel to let them die. It is as distressing to dumb +creatures to undergo sickness, and death, as it is for human, and as +distressing to be crueled, and as distressing to suffer. God requires +human to take good care of dumb creatures, and be kind to them, or not +keep any. Now do understand, and I will tell you exact. + +STOPPAGE IN STOMACH.--If a hen has stoppage in her stomach, her corn +stops in her crop, hard and swell large, and she sick, first work with +your fingers carefully, get it soft, then take a small teaspoon and +measure it full of epsom salts, and dissolve it in water, and give it to +her with a teaspoon; you must keep to work with your fingers often, to +keep it from hardening again, and the next day, if her breath smells +bad, there is a rottenness in her stomach, then give her most as much of +epsom salts again. Put a little flour porridge in her mouth with a +teaspoon, three times a day, and a little soaked cracker, soaked in +water; put a little in her mouth if she can swallow it, in five days she +eat with the hens and be well. This is the way I cure them. Folks bring +hens to me in this disease, to the point of death, been sick a long +time, I cure them in five days; they must not have any milk in this +disease, it will kill them, do as I tell you and you can cure them. Once +in a great while one of my hens have stoppage in their stomach; I cure +them with only my fingers, because I take her as soon as the corn stops. +Milk does not agree with hens in sickness nor health, it keeps up in +their stomach, and they vomit it up. I think strange it does not agree +with hens, because milk is so good for human. You must not give your +hens any castor oil, nor rhubarb, in not any disease whatever; it is +poison for them, my reason tells me so, and I hear of folks killing +their hens by giving them such stuff. My hens all keep healthy, because +I keep them clean, and keep victuals and clean water standing by them, +and take good care of them. I can cure a good many diseases for hens, +but I cannot cure every disease. Every once in a while a sick hen is +brought to me, to the point of death, been sick a great while, most +dead, some ail one disease, some ail a number of diseases; I receive +them into my care, I doctor them, and take care of them, I raise them up +to health, I am unable to do anything, but I must take pity. + +FROTH IN THROAT.--If a hen has froth in her throat and crop, measure a +small teaspoonful of epsom salts, dissolve it, put in a little black +pepper, and give it to her with a teaspoon, it will cure this disease; +but if she make a screaming noise with it, and distressed with it, then +a sore growing in her, then no cure. + +GAPES.--If a hen or chicken gapes a great deal, and sick, and complains +of her throat, make pills of black pepper, cream, white flour, and put a +pill in her mouth and make her swallow it till she takes down enough; +the black pepper kills the worms. I cure them so. + +BAG STONE.--This is a seldom case, I have known this case once in a +while. If a hen has a bag of stones grow in her, hang down under her, +you must give her the best of good cake to eat, the stones will consume +in a few weeks, then she will eat corn and oats with the hens, and lay +you eggs; but if you do not give her the best of cake she will certainly +die, she cannot eat anything else then, in this disease, but best of +cake. I cured them so. + +SKIN IN HEN.--If a hen goes on her nest, and try to lay an egg, and +cannot, and there most all day, then a skin of an egg is in her, she +will certainly die if the skin of egg is not took out of her; some one +has a small finger, and common sense, take the skin of egg out of her, +then she is all right. I cure them so. + +BONES.--If a hen is wounded in her hips, or any of her bones, bathe +freely with McQuesten's Extractor a number of times every day, put on a +good deal, till she gets well; I have cured a number of hens with this +Extractor, they could not stand nor walk, their bones was so spraint, +and so wrenched, &c. If their bones stiff too, then put on Dr. Job +Sweet's Sprain Liniment, if any sore, then put on castile soap. I cure +them so. + +WILD.--I bought a young hen last year, she was dreadful wild, and when +one week was at an end she came to me, and let me take her up, she keep +still, and eat out of my hand, she remains gentle ever since, and a good +hen to lay eggs. + +GREEN.--If a hen has bright green come from her, look same as bright +green paint, with yellow in it, give her rice water with nutmeg grated +in it, and Jamaica ginger, a number of times a day, till it cures this +disease. I cure them in a few days. + +FEELING.--It is your duty to take good care, and not let anything hurt +your hens, consider dear little hens. + +BIRDS.--When I step down to the door, the little harmless birds come fly +down on the ground, only one yard off my feet, and some of them half a +yard off my feet. I give them oats and dough to eat; they eat it. Will +they come to any one else? so few folks have feeling. + +DIARRHOEA.---If a hen has diarrhoea, and pain with it, you must be as +careful about what she eats, as her medicines; she must not have not any +corn, and not any corn meal dough, not till she is well. Give her a +little warm flour porridge, five times a day, with a teaspoon; her +medicine, Jamaica ginger, put in warm rice water, and grate in good deal +nutmeg, give it to her three times a day, take good care of her, and she +get well. I cure them so. + +LICE.--Human, some of them, have lice on their hens, it is cruel, the +reason is, the hen-house above the ground, and keep dirty, that breeds +lice on hens, and breeds diseases too; have a cellar for your hens, and +take up the dressing every morning, be no lice, lice will not breed in a +cellar, I never have any lice on my hens, and they keep healthy. Folks +bring sick hens to me, I cure them, and lice on them too, I put black +pepper in their feathers, it kills the lice. God meant for human to take +good care of dumb creatures, and be kind to them, or not keep any. Do by +dumb creatures as you would wish to be done by if you was dumb +creatures, consider how you would feel. + +COWS.--Meal is good for cows, but it will not do for her to have it dry, +it gets in her nose and lungs, and hurt her, wet it; the best way is to +scald it, and cool it, does more good. Cracked corn is better; boil it, +put on cover, it steams it soft very soon, one quart makes two and a +half. Cows must not have dusty hay, it hurts their lungs, &c. Cows ought +not to have Timothy herds grass hay, it is physic. Hay ought to be wet. + +WARPED NECK.--If a hen has warped neck, rub on castor oil, faithful, a +number of times, and give her a little Huile D'olive to take inside, a +good chance, her neck come in place again. + +SWELLED HEAD.--If a hen has swelled head and face, and blue black, put +on Huile D'olive, I had one so, I cured her. + +FEVER.--If a hen has a fever, and her crop swelled soft, take a small +teaspoon full of epsom salts and dissolve it in warm water, and put in a +little black pepper in it, and give it to her with a teaspoon, and give +her as much warm water as she wants to drink in her sickness, I cure +hens and chickens so in three days, and give her a little porridge with +a teaspoon, five times a day, till she is able to eat. I cure them so. + +FEELING.--If any one is cruel to dumb creatures, they will go to +everlasting punishment, and have the greatest punishment. + +SICK, I am, and very unable to do anything, but I must take pity,--dear +little hens. + + * * * * * + +God is good, love and truth, merciful in all his ways. If the will of +God could be done in full, it would be a great happiness among dumb +creatures and human too. Cruelty is of the evil one. The good God is +looking down upon such folks; He will cast them off to everlasting +punishment. Human must do God's commandments in deeds, words and +thoughts. Be kind to poor hens in every way, and not let them suffer +with hunger nor cold; cruelty not in any way; must not affrighten them; +doctor them when they have diseases. Be good and kind to them. Think how +good God is. Act up to His will in all your ways and all your thoughts +too. You must keep your hens from suffering with cold, and give them +enough to eat, and keep them clean, and not affrighten them, &c., &c., +or they cannot lay you eggs. If your hens or chickens have their crops +swelled soft, and a fever, give them a portion of Epsom salts, with a +little black pepper in it, and give them as much warm water as they can +drink; in their sickness take good care of them, they get well. If they +have stoppage in their stomach, their crop swelled hard, take your +fingers and jam carefully till their crop is soft, then give them a +portion of Epsom salts. I have cured them with only my fingers, they get +well. If they have itching feet and scurfy, if mutton tallow will not +cure it, then put their feet in a thing of warm water and wash them +every morning till they get well. When they shed their feathers, their +stomach is weak then, they must have soft victuals then, hard corn will +distress their stomach then. If hen's body comes out, put it back in her +and see to her, she be well by the next day. If it comes more than half +way out, it can be put back if any one has common sense. If a string of +hen's insides comes out, with a egg fast to it, break the egg, and take +it off from her insides and put her insides back in her and see to her, +she be well by the next day. If hen's legs chilled with cold for want of +sun, and they cannot walk, take them by the fire and rub their legs and +feet, faithful, half a day, then rub on black pepper mixed with warm +water, they get well. If a hen is starved she must not have hard corn at +first, give her flour bread soaked soft in milk, till she is able to eat +corn. Hens must not go in snow, it hurts them. They must not have fat +meat. They must not be crowded, their room must be large enough. Their +roosts must not be too high, for them to fly down on hard floor, it +hurts their feet and hips. I know it. Hens want sun in winter and shade +in summer. If hens' feet crack, bleed, and sore places, melt mutton +tallow and white sugar together, rub it on faithful, they get well. If +they bleed great deal, put on warm alum water first, they get well. If +hens' feet swell, put on sweet apple balsam every day, they get well. If +hens' head turns over, give her Epsom salts and black pepper, she get +over it for a while. If hens have diarrhoea, give them boiled rice, +black pepper, nutmeg, mixed, they get well if you take good care of +them. Hens must not have fish, it physics them. Hens must not have +anything relaxing. If hens have rattling in their throat give them Epsom +salts and black pepper, they get well. If hen has her head quiver, and +stagger, give her Epsom salts, and keep her quiet, and her food soak +cracker in milk, she get well. If hens taken lame in the afternoon +without being hurt, rub on mutton tallow and black pepper, they get +well. If hen's bones spraint or bruised, bathe freely with Mequesten's +Extracter, take good care of her, she get well in time, must have little +time for it. This medicine will cure burns, scalds, on human, no doubt +on hens too. It will cure sores, put it on when they first begin to +come. If anything ails hens' eyes, rain-water is good, new milk put on, +mutton tallow put around her eyes, salve made of rose water and cream, +put around her eyes. Hens must not be confined in wind, it hurts them, +they cannot lay you eggs. God placed us in this world to be kind to dumb +creatures, or not keep any, and kind to human too. Consider what a +wickedness it is to go contrary from it. I keep cow and hens, I do my +duty for them. If hens have watery stomachs give them black pepper, put +it in their dough, if they are able to eat it, if not able, then mix the +pepper with water, and give it to her with a teaspoon, be careful and +not have it too strong, to take her breath. If hens have pip, give them +the same medicine, it will cure pip and watery stomach. Help them in +season. If hen has swelled throat, put on sweet oil and black pepper, +she get well. You must not give your hens salt, it will kill them. You +must not give them rye, it will hurt them. If hen lays soft shell eggs, +let her set two or three weeks, she lay hard shell eggs again. You must +take good care of your poor hens or they cannot lay you eggs. Hens must +be kept clean and must not have any bad smell with them, it will poison +them. You must not give them cayenne pepper, it will poison them, it +drives a redness into their heads, then they fail till they die. Black +pepper is good for them when they need it. Hens must have clean victuals +and clean water to drink. Take the chill off the water in winter. Keep +good yellow southern corn standing by them, they take a little when they +want it, it does them more good, and it takes less to keep them. Give +them boiled oats, it is good for them to lay eggs. I give my hens boiled +oats all the time, and corn standing by them. I give them some other +victuals too, sometimes, and sometimes I give them some boiled potatoes. +I mash it with cream for them. My hens lay me more eggs than anybody's +hens anywhere, by what I hear. Good flour bread is splendid to make them +lay eggs, but I am not able to cook it for them. The bread must not be +sour. Keep fine clam shells by them, and gravel sand. They must be kept +warm in winter and cool in summer. They must have clean, warm cellar +room, you will have double the eggs. Take up the dressing every morning +certain, and oftener, if they stay down there days. When cold, keep them +in the cellar, when the weather is suitable, let them out days. If cold +morning, keep them in till the sun gets up warm. Be clever to them. They +must not be affrighted. They can never get over it. I hear what folks do +all my days, and their poor hens cannot lay much and they die off. It is +wicked for folks to be so cruel. + + Be good and kind to all that breathes, + Act up our good Saviour's laws, + Have tender feelings in your hearts, + For all the poor, harmless dumb creatures. + +My hens are all in better order since I had a cellar for them, than they +were before, and lay me double the eggs. Hens must not suffer with the +cold, nor no other sufferings, you cannot have eggs. Raise your chickens +on good flour bread, it will make them healthy, grow fast and smart; +they must be fed often; I do not think meal is very good for hens or +chickens; meal is splendid for cows. If you are forced to give your hens +or chickens meal, you must sift it fine and scald it and cool it. I used +to raise my chickens on flour middlings dough, it is splendid for them. +Flour bread is better. I do not set any hens now. You must not let young +chickens go in cold nor wet ground, nor rain, &c., &c. You must boil +some corn in winter, and give it to your hens warm, besides other +victuals. + +Human, those that are cruel to dumb creatures and to human too, and +murder, rob, steal, cheat, contrary, spite, deceit, and take the +advantage of any one, to damage them in any way, &c., &c., those will go +to everlasting punishment hereafter, and have the greatest punishment. + + Be tender hearted, be kind one to another, do your duty to those + who still live. + God requires human to do as they wish to be done by, + In deeds, words and thoughts, to human and dumb creatures too. + The greatest sin is, in the sight of God, is to cruel the poor + harmless dumb creatures, + They cannot speak nor help themselves. + + The next sin is to cruel sick human, + The next sin is to cruel any who cannot help themselves, + And especially the cruel to the poor, harmless dumb creatures. + + The Lord will cut asunder the cords of such sinners. + This world a place of misery, + I pray for thy kingdom to come, to destroy all sin, + O Lord, land me in heaven, that holy, happy place, + When I bid adieu to this vain world, + My good God in heaven, my only true friend, + Has held me up with His arm, and all I have to lean upon. + Christ, a man of grief, he wept so much himself, + On him I lean, who not in vain, + He counts and treasures up my tears. + +NANCY LUCE. +WEST TISBURY, DUKES COUNTY, MASS., 1871. + + * * * * * + +This reading below is on my gravestones: + + Poor little heart, ADA QUEETIE, + O my heart is consumed + In the coffin under ground, + O how I feel for her, + She and I could never part, + She was my own heart within me, + She had more than common love, + And more than common wit. + + Poor little heart, BEAUTY LINNA, + She has consumed, + In the coffin under ground, + O how I feel for her, + She was a cunning little heart. + + Poor TWEEDLE, TEDEL, BEEBE, PINKY, + Poor dear little heart, + Sore broke in her, + I am left broken-hearted, + She was my own heart within me, + She had more than common wit, + She is taken from the evil to come. + + +Them that knew me once, know--me--no--more, +Till all things have their end, +And they, and I, do meet in heaven. + + + + +PRAYERS. + + + O I pray for my Lord Jesus Christ, + To destroy all sin, and all misery, for the afflicted, + For the poor harmless dumb creatures, + And for all the troubled, + In the wide world around, + For all that breathes the breath of life, + Dumb creatures, and human too. + O that I may leave this world of misery, + O that I may see my Lord Jesus Christ, + And live with him in heaven. + O that I may meet my deceased friends in heaven; + O that I may rise above those earthly afflictions, sickness, trials, + and trouble. Amen. + +O Lord, my God of Heaven, Grant me, I beseech Thee, O Lord, I pray for +Thy Kingdom to come, to destroy all sin, be done on earth as it is done +in heaven, for the poor harmless dumb creatures, and for all the +troubled in the wide world around. O I pray for all the inhabitants of +the earth to be prepared to live in this world, and in the world to +come. O that they may be true children of God, tender feelings, and kind +to dear little hens, and other dumb creatures. O Lord, my God of Heaven, +I know Thee will cut asunder the sinners hereafter and cast them to +everlasting wo, if any one is cruel to dear little hens, and other dumb +creatures. O Lord, I hope there is not any one so cruel, so sinful. Thy +Kingdom come. Amen. 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