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Mr. and Mrs. Evans
Timmy Flynn is only 11 years old, but he’s a faithful patron on Cussy Mary Carter’s Pack Horse library route. His mother won’t tolerate books from the government coming into her home, so Cussy and Timmy come up with a system that allows her to leave the books safely at the end of the family property.
Timmy Flynn Quotes in The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
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Chapter 22
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“I’m sorry, Mr. Smith,” I said, secretly touched they loved the books so dearly. Without the loans, his young’uns couldn’t learn because the moonshiner refused to send them to school. No man, no Kentucky law, could make a hillman do that. Most folks hadn’t even heard it was law. The land had its own decrees, held tight its hard ways of handling harder things. Folks would pack their little ones off to school only if it suited them, and not because of something written somewhere far away by city folks they’d never seen, or would ever see.
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Timmy Flynn Quotes in The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
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Chapter 22
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“I’m sorry, Mr. Smith,” I said, secretly touched they loved the books so dearly. Without the loans, his young’uns couldn’t learn because the moonshiner refused to send them to school. No man, no Kentucky law, could make a hillman do that. Most folks hadn’t even heard it was law. The land had its own decrees, held tight its hard ways of handling harder things. Folks would pack their little ones off to school only if it suited them, and not because of something written somewhere far away by city folks they’d never seen, or would ever see.
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