{"id":6447,"date":"2019-11-04T19:38:55","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T19:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.yesterdaysclassics.com\/books\/?page_id=6447"},"modified":"2025-03-24T10:13:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T10:13:48","slug":"the-sandman-more-farm-stories-by-william-j-hopkins","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/old.yesterdaysclassics.com\/books\/the-sandman-more-farm-stories-by-william-j-hopkins\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sandman: More Farm Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Sandman: More Farm Stories<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by William J. Hopkins<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"width: 100%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"675\" title=\"hopkins_more_cover\" data-id=\"6644\" src=\"\/\/yesterdaysclassics.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/hopkins_more_cover.jpg\" style=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/old.yesterdaysclassics.com\/previews\/hopkins_more_preview.pdf\" style=\"outline: none; display: inline-block;\" target=\"_blank\">Look inside&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span>Description:&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">&nbsp;Twenty-one more stories about Little John working and playing on the farm, engaged in such activities as tending animals, growing corn, and chopping wood, or fishing, skating, and sledding. Second volume in a series of a stories created by a father to induce a certain little boy to go to sleep. For nearly three years his one listener heard them repeated many times, and his interest never flagged. As the farm stories slowly grew in number, eventually to fill two volumes, they entirely displaced the other stories, and that farm became as real in the mind of his listener as it was in fact when little John was driving the cows or planting the corn in the early part of the nineteenth century.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span><span><span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Additional information:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ages:&nbsp; <\/strong><em>5-8<\/em><span><strong>Length:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/span><span> <\/span><em><span>139 pages<\/span><\/em><span><span><span><span><strong>Format:<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span><span><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><em><span><span>Paperback, Ebook<\/span><\/span><\/em><span><strong>Illustrations:<\/strong><\/span><em><strong><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><span>&nbsp;Black and white<\/span><\/em><span><span><span><span><strong>Year published:<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span><span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><em><span><span><span><span>2009<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><span><span><span><strong>ISBN:<\/strong>&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span><em>978-1-59915-301-8<\/em><span><span><span><span style=\"letter-spacing: px;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: Npx;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: Napx;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: NaNpx;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: .px;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: px;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: Npx;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: Napx;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: NaNpx;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: .px;\"><strong><span>Genres:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><em><span><span><span><span style=\"letter-spacing: px;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: Npx;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: Napx;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: NaNpx;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: .px;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: px;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: Npx;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: Napx;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: NaNpx;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: .px;\"><span>&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span>Science and Technology, Household Industry<\/span><\/em>                    <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Purchase book at Amazon<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Add print book to cart<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Add ebook to cart<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><strong><strong><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>1. The Calf Story2. The Hatchet Story3. The Fishing Story4. The Sunday Story5. The Skating Story6. The Thanksgiving Story7. The Sled Story8. The Pea Story9. The Bull Story10. The Squash Story11. The Perch Story<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>12. The Pasture Story13. The Brush-Pile Story14. The Trap Story15. The Fox Story16. The School Story17. The Meeting-House Story18. The Gun Story19. The Little Garden Story20. The Wood Lot Story21. The Pigeon Story<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>An Inside View&#8230;<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"15133\" width=\"924\" height=\"691\" title=\"hopkins_more\" src=\"\/\/yesterdaysclassics.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/hopkins_more.jpg\" style=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><strong><strong>Related Titles&#8230;<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"width: 100%;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/old.yesterdaysclassics.com\/books\/rollo-at-work-by-jacob-abbott\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"118\" height=\"176\" title=\"abbott_work_cover\" data-id=\"3071\" src=\"https:\/\/old.yesterdaysclassics.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/abbott_work_cover.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio: auto 450 \/ 675;\" data-width=\"118\" data-height=\"176\" data-init-width=\"450\" data-init-height=\"675\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/old.yesterdaysclassics.com\/books\/rollo-at-work-by-jacob-abbott\/\" style=\"outline: none; display: inline-block;\"><strong>Rollo at Work<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Jacob Abbott<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><span style=\"width: 100%;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/old.yesterdaysclassics.com\/books\/the-sandman-his-house-stories-by-william-j-hopkins\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"118\" height=\"176\" title=\"hopkins_house_cover\" data-id=\"3047\" src=\"https:\/\/old.yesterdaysclassics.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/hopkins_house_cover.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio: auto 450 \/ 675;\" data-width=\"118\" data-height=\"176\" data-init-width=\"450\" data-init-height=\"675\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/old.yesterdaysclassics.com\/books\/the-sandman-his-house-stories-by-william-j-hopkins\/\" style=\"outline: none; display: inline-block;\"><strong>The Sandman: His House Stories<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by William J. 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