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... girls , turning an upper chamber of the parsonage into a classroom . Lyman loathed teaching as much as he hated farming . His dull pupils exasperated him . In Litchfield he had his temper in hand but was still capable of playing the ...
... girls , turning an upper chamber of the parsonage into a classroom . Lyman loathed teaching as much as he hated farming . His dull pupils exasperated him . In Litchfield he had his temper in hand but was still capable of playing the ...
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... girls until he was a Sophomore at Yale . His classmate Ben Baldwin took him to Nutplains . Ben was engaged to the Foote girls ' cousin , Betsy Chittenden . It was a lively circle - one to put a New Haven blacksmith's son on his mettle ...
... girls until he was a Sophomore at Yale . His classmate Ben Baldwin took him to Nutplains . Ben was engaged to the Foote girls ' cousin , Betsy Chittenden . It was a lively circle - one to put a New Haven blacksmith's son on his mettle ...
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... girls who remained in her employ so many years . They were Laura and Tesia Sum- merall and Felicia Primus Zeigler . Old Aunt Felicia was still alive in Mandarin when the materials for this book were being gathered . She re- membered ...
... girls who remained in her employ so many years . They were Laura and Tesia Sum- merall and Felicia Primus Zeigler . Old Aunt Felicia was still alive in Mandarin when the materials for this book were being gathered . She re- membered ...
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