The Hoosier Schoolmaster A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana

BEING THE HISTORY OF A STORY. «THE HOOSIER SCHOOL-MASTER» was written and printed in the autumn of 1871. It is therefore now about twenty-one years old, and the publishers propose to mark its coming of age by issuing a library edition. I avail myself of the occasion to make some needed revisions, and to preface the new edition with an account of the origin and adventures of the book. If I should seem to betray unbecoming pride in speaking of a story that has passed into several languages and mai