William le Queux - "The Four Faces"

Ruth McEnery Stuart - "Moriah's Mourning and Other Half Hour Sketches"

Juliana Horatio Ewing - "Jackanapes"

Various - "The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IV, No. 22, Aug., 1859"

Annual Bibliography of Commonwealth Literature 2007
This paper argues that discourses of love in Ghanaian market literature for youth offer a view into complex negotiations of agency and empowerment. Drawing on Deborah Durham's notion of youth as "social `shifters'" and Francis Nyamnjoh's conception of the "interconnectedness" of agency, I take Ghanaian market literature as one specific case of how African literature for youth foregrounds questions of continuity and change as African societies enter into increasingly complex global relations. In this literature for youth, received notions of love, often constructed out of impressions from American pop and hip hop music, carry new notions of agency that compete with existing "domesticated" forms. Authors like Ike Tandoh and Evelyn Tay employ discourses of love to offer youth alternative avenues for empowerment in a context of socio-economic disenfranchizement. In a creative process of "straddling", this writing both reveals and reproduces the contradictions that obtain in youth configurations of agency.

The Kentucky Ranger

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"Well, you are a good boy, and," after handing him the paper, "now you
can go to your friends at the quarters."

When the curtain was rung down on this scene, in a metaphorically
sense, it rose on another of much interest.

The wedding party and guests were still sitting at the tables when
honest David Hester, arising to his feet, said: "I move that we all
drink a toast to our newly married friends, and that we drink it in
pure cold water. Also, that John Larkin speak to the toast in behalf of
the company." This motion was seconded by more than a dozen voices, the
glasses were filled from the living spring, and the toast was drunk in
the best liquid the world has ever seen.

John Larkin arose and said: "It gives me great pleasure to speak a few
words on this happy and auspicious occasion. First, I wish to thank
Judge and Madam LeMonde for the sumptuous repast they have provided for
all who are present. (Loud applause all down the line.) Next, I desire
to say some true words respecting our honored bridegroom. I have known
Jasper Very for several years, and have been his colleague most of the
time. I do not overstep the mark when I declare that he is the
greatest preacher in Kentucky today. (Cries of "That's so," and
applause.) He stands foursquare for righteousness seven days in the
week. He is a terror to evil doers. It is by such men's work and
sacrifices that we shall stamp out ruffianism, and lift our State to a
high respect for law and order. (Clapping of hands.) His career is yet
before him, and I believe his name will be handed down to coming
generations as an eloquent, zealous, fearless, and successful preacher
of the gospel. (Loud applause by the whole company.) My only ambition
is that I may be his traveling companion in the ministry as long as
possible, for he is to me an inspiration, a help, and, best of all, a
devoted friend. (Cheers by all.)

"What shall I say concerning the lady who this day becomes his wife? He
might have searched the State over, and not found so suitable a life
companion. She was the originator of the mission school, and its
prosperity is seen by the number of its members who are here today.
(Much hand clapping by the people from the hills.) Yes, and she would
not let the fear of highwaymen keep her from the straight path of duty.
By an outlaw's bullet, she was brought to the verge of death, but God
in mercy spared her in answer to our prayers. God surely intended her
to be a preacher's wife. He gave her a voice to sing which melts the
stony heart, he gave the opportunity for culture so that she can lift
up the minds as well as the morals of the people. Her graciousness is
surpassed only by her humility, and her beauty of face and form only by
the loveliness and perfection of her spirit. To high and low she is the
finest type of American womanhood." (Long continued applause,
especially by the hill crowd.)

The after-dinner speeches were ended, and the bride and groom retired
to their dressing-rooms in the mansion, where the wedding garments were
taken off and traveling suits substituted. Soon they appeared on the
front piazza, most of the invited guests still remaining on the lawn.

By a previous arrangement Mose was to be the honored driver of the
carriage, to take them to the railway station. Never was there a
prouder or happier negro. He showed the importance of his duty in every
turn of his body. He was dressed in a new suit of clothes, and a tall
silk hat ornamented his woolly head. He held his whip and lines like a
master of horse.

Some fond good-byes, a few tears like April showers with the sun
shining, a crack of the whip, and Velox and Prince are off on the happy
journey.

So we leave them as with

"Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts to beat as one,"

they set out on their life work.

"We have heard that our hero became a mighty preacher, whose praise was
in all the churches. His fields of labor widened with the years. His
reputation went before him, and he was known in many States as an
original and marvelous genius, but to us he will ever be remembered as
The Kentucky Ranger.

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