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Lessons in Words and Men at Whistling Hill
A boy recounts school discipline from Old Hickory Mick and Michael Hughes, whose zeal for language and education clashes with drink. The narrative traces linguistic study, tavern escapades, and a doomed struggle with alcoholism, ending with a grim note on a teacher’s suicide years later.
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Whistling Hill
Old Hickory Mick
Globe
Dombey & Son
Michael Hughes
Michael
Paddy
Mono Mills
Allen
Hickory
Murphy's Tavern
Mono
Harry
Satan
Mr. Murphy
Old Hickory
Adjala Township
Colleen Rue
Virgilius Maro
British Isles
Mrs. Murphy