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Story August 16, 1866

The Jeffersonian

Stroudsburg, Monroe County, Pennsylvania

What is this article about?

An overprotective farmer's daughters secretly let lovers into their room using a bedsheet. One night, the father mistakes the sheet for something else, pulls on it, and is hoisted up by his daughters before falling and injuring his shoulder, leading him to allow their suitors.

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A Lesson For Dad.—An old gentleman farmer, who had two or three very pretty daughters, who was very anxious of his charge that he would not permit them to keep the company of young men. However, they adopted the following expedient to enjoy the society of their lovers. After the old man had retired to rest, the girls would hang a sheet out of the window, which was quite a distance from the ground, and the beau would seize hold of it, and with the assistance of his lady-love who tugged lustily at the end above, would thus gain entrance. But it so happened that one evening the girls hung out the sheet rather early; for the old gentleman by some ill wind, was blown around the corner, and spying the bed covering, could not conjecture the meaning of its being there. He took hold and endeavored to pull it down. The girls, supposing it to be one of their beaux, began to hoist, and did not discover their mistake until the head of the old man was level with the window-sill when one of them exclaimed, "O! Lord, it's dad!" and letting go their hold, souse came the old man on the hard stones and ground below, dislocating one of his shoulders, which convinced him that his efforts to make old maids of his daughters was not a matter so easily accomplished, and withdrawing all opposition to their keeping company, he was soon a father-in-law.

What sub-type of article is it?

Family Drama Deception Fraud

What themes does it cover?

Family Deception Triumph

What keywords are associated?

Family Trick Daughters Lovers Father Fall Shoulder Injury Relenting Parent

What entities or persons were involved?

Old Gentleman Farmer Daughters Beaux

Story Details

Key Persons

Old Gentleman Farmer Daughters Beaux

Story Details

Overprotective father forbids daughters from seeing young men; they use a bedsheet to let lovers climb in at night. One evening, father pulls on the sheet, daughters hoist him up thinking it's a beau, realize mistake, let go, he falls and dislocates shoulder, then allows suitors.

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