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Hobyahs have haunted me since I read that story as a child. Yes, much of this book is quaint moralizing. But there's also a good little chunk of "Hiawatha," with children's poems by Robert Louis Stevenson and Christina Rosetti that may still reach today's preschoolers. This book is a model of the middle and working class parenting principles that carried over from the 19th into the 20th century, and which are still practiced unchanged among very conservative Americans in 2010.