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Title: A Dixie School Girl

Author: Gabrielle E. Jackson

Release Date: June 12, 2008 [EBook #25765]

Language: English

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A DIXIE SCHOOL GIRL

By
GABRIELLE E. JACKSON

Made In U.S.A.

M. A. DONOHUE & COMPANY
CHICAGO :: NEW YORK

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COPYRIGHT 1913
BY
M. A. DONOHUE & COMPANY

Made in U. S. A.

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TO MY TWO DIXIE NEIGHBORS,

whose entertaining tales of their childhood escapades have helped
to make these stories, this first volume of the "Dixie Girl" is
most affectionately inscribed by their friend.
G. E. J.

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CHAPTER I

FULL SPEED FOR FOUR CORNERS

Four straight country roads running at right angles. You cannot see where
they begin because they have their beginning "over the hills and far
away," but you can see where they end at "Four Corners," the hub of that
universe, for there stand the general store, which is also the
postoffice, the "tavern," as it is called in that part of the world, the
church, the rectory, and perhaps a dozen private dwellings.

"Four Corners" is oddly mis-named, because there are no corners there at
all. It is a circle. Maybe it was origi