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Mary evans anne nagel moves to a small town in indiana to take a teaching job in the local school. But i low it takes a right smart man to be school master in flat crick in the winter. You might teach a summer school, when nothin but children come. Frontispiece and 11 plates plus additional text illustrations. A story of backwoods life in indiana by edward eggleston free ebook project gutenberg.
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