An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

The Child's First Lesson: A Shooting Star [for the Saturday Press]

R. W. P. "The Child's First Lesson: A Shooting Star [for the Saturday Press]." New-York Saturday Press, February 11, 1860, 4.
Type
newspaper
Genre
short fiction
Abstract

A mother chides her very young son about not running to her mother's side like good little boys are want to do. Upon seeing a shooting star that night, the child wonders at how much it must love its mother to fly so fast.

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