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The Brown Mouse

Herbert Quick · 1915

A 1915 novel about Jim Irwin, a farmhand and aspiring rural schoolteacher, whose life begins to change after Jennie Woodruff, the farmer's daughter, dismisses his prospects with a scornful "Humph," spurring him to seek a better future.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

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