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It is only a plain tale of plain people told in the plain dialect of a plain old woman.
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Hall, Eliza Calvert (1910). "Introduction". Sally Ann's Experience. Illustrated by G. Patrick Nelson, Theodore Brown Hapgood. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. pp. v - xii.
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Lida Obenchain's description of her then famous story Sally Ann's Experience.

 

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