WHAT THIS BOOK IS ABOUT.

In consequence of the Dominie's go-as-you-please methods of educatingvillage children, the inevitable happens—he is dismissed, giving placeto an approved disciplinarian.

The unhappy Dominie, forced to leave his bairns, seeks to enlist—butthe doctor discovers that his lungs are affected, and he is ordered anopen-air life.

He returns as a cattleman to the village where he has previously been aschoolmaster. Incidentally, he watches the effect of his successor'steaching, the triumph of his own methods and the discomfiture of hisrival at the hands of the children, in whom the Dominie cultivatedpersonality and the rights of bairns.

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