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Title: The Jucklins
A Novel

Author: Opie Read

Release Date: August 31, 2008 [EBook #26499]

Language: English

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THE JUCKLINS

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| OPIE READ'S SELECT WORKS |
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| Old Ebenezer |
| The Jucklins |
| My Young Master |
| A Kentucky Colonel |
| On the Suwanee River |
| A Tennessee Judge |
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OPIE READ'S SELECT WORKS

THE JUCKLINS
A NOVEL

BY

OPIE READ

Author of "Old Ebenezer," "My Young Master,"
"On the Suwanee River," "A Kentucky Colonel,"
"A Tennessee Judge," "The Colossus," "Emmett
Bonlore," "Len Gansett," "The Tear in The Cup,
and Other Stories," "The Wives of The Prophet."

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO LAIRD & LEE, PUBLISHERS

Entered according to Act of Congress in the year eighteen
hundred and ninety-six, by

WILLIAM H. LEE,

In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

(ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)

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THE JUCKLINS

CHAPTER I.

The neighbors and our family began to laugh at me about as far back as I
can remember, and I think that the first serious remark my father ever
addressed to me was, "Bill, you are too lazy to amount to anything in
this life, so I rec