... and confusing them, and their books, and slates with fragments of stucco and mortar, rotten laths, and rusty nails. In a kind of recess, on the side of the school-room opposite to the boys' double desks, was an old table, flanked by a form, to which,... Father Connell, by the O'Hara family [really J. Banim alone]. - Page 241by O'Hara family pseud - 1842Full view - About this book
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