CHAPTER ITHE HOUSE IN THE LANE
One fine day in the merry month of August when the birds were singing in the trees and all the schools were closed and hikes and camping and ice cream cones were in season, and the chickens were congregated on the platform of the Hicksville, North Carolina, post office, something of far reaching consequence happened.
On that day Joshua Hicks, postmaster-general of that thriving world centre, emerged from the post...
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