A North Country Tale of Debt, Robbery, and First Love
A fragment from Silas Wright Irving Bacheller narrates a teen narrator in Canton in early life. Debt to Amos Grimshaw, a daring highway robbery, a fall and a deadly shooting, and a budding romance with Sally unfold amid farm life. Uncle Peabody and mentor figures shape the escape toward schooling at Canton Academy and a coming departure.
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Harvard
Uncle Penbody
Aunt Deel and Uncle Pea Take Bart to School Village
Bart recalls a late September day when Aunt Deel and Uncle Peabody take him with a pine chest to a village for schooling. He faces loneliness as Hackett family farewells mingle with memory, while Mr. Hackett and Mary Dunkelberg offer warmth and science through a microscope and violin tunes.
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Aunt Deel
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Ashery Lane
Uncle Teabody
Palr
Sally
Hackett
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Buck
Hacket
Reg
Mary
Maggie
Ruth
John
Hale
Mr. Hacket
Sally Dunkelberg
Mr. Wacker
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