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a-goin a'ready ag'in ain't answered anyhow apologize Aunt Louisa Butz civil government daugh desk Doctor Thorpe dollars door dumn election Eva Johnson eyes face feel FIGHTING DOCTOR girl give glance hand hear Hiram Unger instant Jacob Jake Schmidt Jakey John Kuhn Jonas Herr keep knew Kupp Kutztown Normal Lebanon County look mean Mike Goodman Mike Goodman's niece Mike's mind Miss Graeff Miss Jerome Mister Mollie Graeff Mollie's morning never nigger night nothin Old Mennonite oncet parlor Pennsylvania Dutch Pennsylvania German platform pupils road-drag roads rose school board school director schoolhouse schoolroom second continental congress settin suddenly supervisors supper sure Susan teacher tell There's thing Thorpe's tion tony took turned Uncle Mike uncle's voice walked Webster Town Webster Township Weesy Wi-lin woman wonder young
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Page 211 - Then she leaned back in her chair and folded her hands in her lap. "I can tell you boys something that no one else knows,
Page 30 - Getting supper would be mad dissipation compared to the mental anguish of imbibing such dust as that! To think of being obliged to waste one's fair young life over that, when there are such things to read as Keats's poetry and George Eliot's novels ! If I 've got to teach that civil government, I 'll resign and turn politician or evangelist, whichever pays best.
Page 96 - there 's no getting 'round the fact that the fiber of her is Pennsylvania Dutch and therefore common. We ought to replace her at the next election.