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What Might Have Been Expected

By Frank R. Stockton

2020-10-20 22:42:12

Kate is helping organize a company that hopes to bring telegraph lines into this part of the woods for the first time; but as Treasurer and Secretary, it seems nothing is going as smoothly as it looked from the outset. For some of the other Direct ... Read more
Kate is helping organize a company that hopes to bring telegraph lines into this part of the woods for the first time; but as Treasurer and Secretary, it seems nothing is going as smoothly as it looked from the outset. For some of the other Directors, just waiting for the equipment is trial enough. The Crooked Creek Telegraph Company really starts rolling once the equipment arrives -- instruments and batteries, and everything else needed for their effort, all packed up in boxes and arriving by night train. And now there are poles to cut and trim, paths for the wires to clear -- and then the setting of the insulators high up on the poles -- and the stringing of the wires . . . Less

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File size278.179 KB
Print pages128
PublisherPublic Domain Books
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1606646762
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Frank R. Stockton
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Frank Richard Stockton (April 5, 1834 – April 20, 1902) was an American writer and humorist, best known today for a series of innovative children's fairy tales that were widely popular during the la...

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