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Four weeks of teaching in a lower East Side school had deprived Constance Bailey of many of the "Ideals in Education" which, during four years at college, she had trustingly acquired. But, despite many discourage-ments, despite an unintelligible dialect and an autocratic "Course of Study," she clung to an ambition to establish harmony in her kingdom and to impress a high moral tone upon the fifty-eight little children of Israel entrusted to her care. She was therefore troubled and heavy of heart when it was borne in upon her that two of her little flock - cousins to boot, and girls - had so far forgotten the Golden Rule as to be "mad on theirselves und wouldn't to talk even," as that Bureau of Fashionable Intelligence, Sarah Schrodsky, duly reported. "Und Teacher," Sarah continued, "Eva Gonorowsky's mamma has a mad on Sadie Gonorowsky's mamma, und her papa has a mad on her papa, und her gran'ma has a mad on both of papas und both of mammas, und her gran'pa has a mad somethin' fierce on both of uncles, und her auntie - "

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Anthologies (non-poetry)

• Full title: Little Citizens
• Author: Myra Kelly
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 188
• EAN: 9781421809823
• ISBN: 9781421809823
• ID: 08411456
• Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
• Weight: 376 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 20. February 2006

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