AN ANGEL IN DISGUISE by T.S. ARTHUR
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
4.5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2019
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In this well written short story, a single and destitute mother of three dies in a small village, leaving behind a 12 year old boy, a daughter of about 10, and a young child who had been paralyzed from a fall when she was two. The villagers meet at the funeral and offer to take the two older children but leave the youngest to her own fate,
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back to 1, Classic Short Stories and Tales, |
| 0:34.3 | and a great short story from T.S. Arthur, |
| 0:36.9 | the first one we've done, but certainly not the last. |
| 0:40.7 | Timothy Shay Arthur, born June 6, 1809, lived through March 6th, 1885, |
| 0:47.0 | was a popular 19th century American author, |
| 0:50.0 | most famous for his temperance novel, |
| 0:52.0 | 10 Nights in a Bar Room, |
| 0:54.0 | and What I Saw There, which he wrote in 1854. |
| 0:57.0 | His novel, which demonized alcohol |
| 1:00.0 | and the evils of over-consumption, |
| 1:02.0 | held great sway over the American public and |
| 1:04.7 | moved the temperance movement further ahead moving that whiskey bottle further from hand. |
| 1:11.6 | He wrote a large number of short stories which were printed in Gody's |
| 1:15.0 | Ladies Book, the most popular pre-civil war era magazine in America. His |
| 1:20.7 | prolific stories and novels promoted the sound values, beliefs, and habits of the well-mannered middle-class. |
| 1:28.0 | How he could have spent ten nights in a bar room without drinking or getting in a fight is leapt up to our imaginations. |
| 1:36.6 | An angel in disguise today's story was featured in Arthur's collection after a shadow in other |
| 1:41.8 | stories. |
| 1:43.0 | And now an angel in disguise by T.S. Arthur. |
| 1:47.0 | Idleness, vice and intemperance had done their miserable work, and the dead mother lay cold |
| 1:56.0 | and still amid her wretched children. |
| 1:59.7 | She had fallen upon the threshold of her own door in a drunken fit and died in the presence of her frightened |
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