TY - GEN AU - Peck,Richard TI - The teacher's funeral: a comedy in three parts SN - 0803727364 : AV - PZ7.P338 Te 2004 U1 - [Fic] 22 PY - 2004/// CY - New York PB - Dial Books KW - Education KW - Fiction KW - sears KW - Teachers KW - Country life KW - Indiana KW - Humorous fiction KW - History KW - 20th century N2 - In rural Indiana in 1904, fifteen-year-old Russell's dreams of quitting school and joining a wheat threshing crew are disrupted when his older sister takes over the teaching at his one-room schoolhouse after mean old Myrt Arbuckle "hauls off and dies." ER -