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Guests in the Smokehouse

Story Stats

Rating: 4
Grade Level: 4, 5, 6, 7
Page count: 18

Author

Cornelia
Meigs

Appeared in

The Second St. Nicholas Anthology

Story Summary

Young Richard Kent speculates about the mystery surrounding his Uncle Hirams's farm until he learns that it is a stop on the underground railroad and it is his turn to make the forty mile trip to the Canadian border.

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