أنت هنا

»
»
قراءة كتاب
الكتب حسب الموضوع
الأكثر مشاهدة
أحدث الكتب
كُتاب

قراءة كتاب Tillie, a Mennonite Maid; a Story of the Pennsylvania Dutch

تنويه: تعرض هنا نبذة من اول ١٠ صفحات فقط من الكتاب الالكتروني، لقراءة الكتاب كاملا اضغط على الزر “اشتر الآن"

‏اللغة: English
Tillie, a Mennonite Maid; a Story of the Pennsylvania Dutch

Tillie, a Mennonite Maid; a Story of the Pennsylvania Dutch

تقييمك:
0
لا توجد اصوات
المؤلف:
دار النشر: Project Gutenberg
الصفحة رقم: 1


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 to find herself in the heaven of sitting on Miss Margaret's lap, her head against her breast and Miss Margaret's soft hand smoothing her cheek and hair. And it was in that blissful moment that Tillie had discovered, for the first time in her young

الصفحات