The Beginners of a Nation, by Edward Eggleston 39882 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/3/9/8/8/39882 ] [Files: 39882.txt; 39882-8.txt; 39882-h.htm] Thanks to David Edwards, Christine P. Travers and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Many thanks Janet