This is the title of a charming book, written by Mrs. Sophie M. Damon, a Universalist lady, residing in Woodstock, Vermont, in one of the old homesteads described in the story. It relates to the era from 1805 to 1825, including the War of 1812.
The events recorded are simple and natural. We are introduced to a party, a spelling-match, a school-conspiracy, Thanksgiving, a funeral, sugar-making, a bear, Lorenzo Dow's preaching, accidents, a Papal conversion. For characters, we have not only the two Allwoode households, of thrifty and thriving pioneers, to which the chief personages belong, but also a quaint dragon of a servant, a cranky old-maid, a widower-man who falls in love with Polly, a young schoolmaster, a city spark, the country beau, the farm-hands, the poor neighbors.
A slipper figures in the narration, somewhat a la Cinderella. We journey from Vermont to Cleveland, Ohio, in its early days; and follow with interest the course of true love, till Sidney is reunited to his Elsie, and the young Doctor is at last betrothed to the heroine of the little shoe, whose heel saves his life at Plattsburg.
