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Chapter I

A TRUE STORY.

(READ BEFORE A MEETING OF THE DANVILLE SCRIBBLER CLUB.)

Transcriber's Notes

Variations in spelling, hyphenation, and punctuation have been retained from the original book, except for the following changes:

Page 9: raiload changed to railroad: (From the raiload bridge, with its single span,). Page 49: Aud changed to And: (Aud do the very best I could the heat to struggle through,). Page 56: Punctuation corrected from: (Old "Bull "Spring?") to (Old "Bull Spring!"). Page 62: Their changed to There: (There where briars in tangled network sway). Page 101: Ephram's changed to Ephraim's: (Was dear to Ephram's eye and heart, it was his claybank, Fan;).

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