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Title: Tillie: A Mennonite Maid
A Story of the Pennsylvania Dutch
Author: Helen Reimensnyder Martin
Posting Date: September 11, 2009 [EBook #4760]
Release Date: December, 2003
First Posted: March 13, 2002
Last Updated: February 9, 2008
Language: English
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TILLIE: A MENNONITE MAID
A STORY OF THE PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH
BY
HELEN REIMENSNYDER MARTIN
CONTENTS
I "OH, I LOVE HER! I LOVE HER!"
II "I'M GOING TO LEARN YOU ONCE!"
III "WHAT'S HURTIN' YOU, TILLIE?"
IV "THE DOC" COMBINES BUSINESS AND PLEASURE
V "NOVELS AIN'T MORAL, DOC!"
VI JAKE GETZ IN A QUANDARY
VII "THE LAST DAYS OF PUMP-EYE"
VIII MISS MARGARET'S ERRAND
IX "I'LL DO MY DARN BEST, TEACHER!"
X ADAM SCHUNK'S FUNERAL
XI "POP! I FEEL TO BE PLAIN"
XII ABSALOM KEEPS COMPANY
XIII EZRA HERR, PEDAGOGUE
XIV THE HARVARD GRADUATE
XV THE WACKERNAGELS AT HOME
XVI THE WACKERNAGELS "CONWERSE"
XVII THE TEACHER MEETS ABSALOM
XVIII TILLIE REVEALS HERSELF
XIX TILLIE TELLS A LIE
XX TILLIE IS "SET BACK"
XXI "I'LL MARRY HIM TO-MORROW!"
XXII THE DOC CONCOCTS A PLOT
XXIII SUNSHINE AND SHADOW
XXIV THE REVOLT OF TILLIE
XXV GETZ "LEARNS" TILLIE
XXVI TILLIE'S LAST FIGHT
TILLIE: A MENNONITE MAID
A STORY OF THE PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH
I
"OH, I LOVE HER! I LOVE HER!"
Tillie's slender little body thrilled with a peculiar ecstasy as she
stepped upon the platform and felt her close proximity to the
teacher--so close that she could catch the sweet, wonderful fragrance
of her clothes and see the heave and fall of her bosom. Once Tillie's
head had rested against that motherly bosom. She had fainted in school
one morning after a day and evening of hard, hard work in her father's
celery-beds, followed by a chastisement for being caught with a
"story-book"; and she had come out of her faint
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