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Freckles is a one-handed, plucky waif of an orphan, who has been raised since infancy in a Chicago orphanage and yet speaks with a powerful Irish accent. He applies for a job guarding timber in the swamp, and is accepted despite his youth and the disability of his having only one hand. He insists that the name given him in the orphanage ""is no more my name than it is yours."" Freckles develops an interest in the wildlife of the swamp and in natural history, and falls in love with the Swamp Angel. The story's primary action involves his self-education, his loyalty to his empl.
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Keywords
- GITenberg
- Indiana -- Fiction
- Orphans -- Fiction
- People with disabilities -- Fiction
- PS
- PZ
- Swamps -- Fiction
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