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The Cromaboo Mail Carrier

A Canadian Love Story
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 1973

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A Canadian love story about Robbie Smith, a 19-year-old mail carrier travelling the old gravel roadway (now Highway 124) between Cromaboo (Erin) and Gibbeline (Guelph). One day on his travels he sees Miss Mary Paxton, an unwed lady, 14 years his senior. He falls in love with her. And so begins our tale.

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Jones James Thomas :

James Thomas Jones [Mary Leslie] (1842-1920) was, in fact, a woman and James Thomas Jones was her pen name. Mary Leslie. She taught drawing in Canada, and also wrote a great deal under the pseudonym "James Thomas Jones" or simply "J.T.J." Her first novel, The Cromaboo Mail Carrier (1878) was originally banned in Erin, Ontario, because its outspokenness offended some of the citizens.Lochhead Douglas :

Douglas Lochhead (1922-2011) was a professor emeritus of Mount Allison University.

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    CHAPTER THE FIRST

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    CHAPTER THE SECOND

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    CHAPTER THE THIRD

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    CHAPTER THE FOURTH

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    CHAPTER THE FIFTH

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    CHAPTER THE SIXTH

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    CHAPTER THE SEVENTH

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    CHAPTER THE EIGHTH

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    CHAPTER THE NINTH

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    CHAPTER THE TENTH

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    CHAPTER THE ELEVENTH

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    CHAPTER THE TWELFTH

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    CHAPTER THE THIRTEENTH

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    CHAPTER THE FOURTEENTH

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    CHAPTER THE FIFTEENTH

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    CHAPTER THE SEVENTEENTH

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    CHAPTER THE EIGHTEENTH

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    CHAPTER THE NINETEENTH

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    CHAPTER THE TWENTIETH

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    CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FIRST

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    CHAPTER THE TWENTY-SECOND

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    CHAPTER THE TWENTY-THIRD

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    CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FIFTH

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    CHAPTER THE TWENTY-SEVENTH

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    CHAPTER THE TWENTY-EIGHTH

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    CHAPTER THE THIETIETH

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    CHAPTER THE THIRTY-FIRST

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    CHAPTER THE THIRTY-SECOND

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    CHAPTER THE THIRTY-FIFTH

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    CHAPTER THE THIRTY-SIXTH

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    CHAPTER THE THIRTY-SEVENTH

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December 15, 1973
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9781487588991
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300
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