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Title: The Hoosier school-master : a novel
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Eggleston, Edward, 1837-1902
Subjects: Country life -- Indiana Teachers -- Indiana
Publisher: New York : Orange Judd
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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t of the house.Come in, stranger, come in. Youll find this erehouse full of brats, but I guess you kin kick yourway around among em. Take a cheer. Here, git out! go tothunder with you! And with these mild imperatives he boxedone of his boys over in one direction and one of his girls over inthe other. I believe in traiuin up children to mind whentheyre spoke to, he said to Ralph apologetically. But it &eemedto the teacher that he wanted them to mind just a little beforethey were spoken to. Praps youd like bed. Well, jest climb up the ladder on theoutside of the house. Takes up a thunderin sight of room tohave a stairs inside, and we hant got no room to spare. Youllfind a bed in the furdest corner. 3Iy Petes already got half ofit, and you can take tother half. Ef Pete goes to takin Ms halfin the middle, and tryin to make you take yourn on both sides,jest kick him. In this comfortless bed in the furdest corner, Ralph foundsleep out of the question. Pete took three fourths of the bed,
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PETE JONES, A TVTIGHT AT PETE JONESES. 69 and Hannah took all of his thoughts. So he lay, and looked outthrough the cracks in the clapboards (as they call roughshingles in the old West) at the stars. For the clouds had nowbroken away. And he lay thus recounting to himself, as a misercounts the pieces that compose his hoard, every step of that roadfrom the time he had overtaken Hannah in the hollow to thefence. Then he imagined again the pleasure of helping her over,and then he retraced the ground to the box-elder tree at thespring, and repeated to himself the conversation until he cameto the part in which she said that only time and God could helpher. What did she mean ? What was the hidden part of herlife? What was the connection between her and Shocky? Hours wore on, and still the niind of Ralph Hartsook went backand traveled the same roacl, over the fence, past the box-elder,up to the inexplicable part of the conversation, and stood bewil-dered with the same puzzling questions abou

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