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The Hoosier Schoolmaster

CHAPTER IV
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The front teeth would drop down so that the Squire's mouth was kept nearly closed, and his words whistled through.
"I feel as if I could be grandiloquent on this interesting occasion," twisting his scalp round, "but raley I must forego any such exertions.
It is spelling you want.

Spelling is the corner-stone, the grand, underlying subterfuge, of a good eddication.

I put the spellin'-book prepared by the great Daniel Webster alongside the Bible.

I do, raley.

I think I may put it ahead of the Bible.


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