[A Daughter of the Land by Gene Stratton-Porter]@TWC D-Link bookA Daughter of the Land CHAPTER VI 32/43
She had the back porch mended and the loose board in the front walk replaced.
She borrowed buckets and cloths and impressed George Holt for the cleaning of the school building which she superintended.
Before the week was over she had every child of school age who came to the building to see what was going on, scouring out desks, blacking stoves, raking the yard, even cleaning the street before the building. Across the street from his home George sawed the dead wood from the trees and then, with three days to spare, Kate turned her attention to the ravine.
She thought that probably she could teach better there in the spring than in the school building.
She and George talked it over. He raised all the objections he could think of that the townspeople would, while entirely agreeing with her himself, but it was of no use. She over-ruled the proxy objections he so kindly offered her, so he was obliged to drag his tired body up the trees on both banks for several hundred yards and drop the dead wood.
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