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A Village Tale: Famine and Fate by marxenf66 is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The village was struck by a potato famine that left the villagers thin and hungry. A country girl, exhausted from labor, drowned herself in a pond. The villagers refused to bury her body. The bailiff and sheriff were called to resolve the matter. Tensions rose from the famine, and a skilled laborer shot his rival who had been courting the same indecisive woman, as he walked below whistling. The shot man was carried to a cottage for aid. When the woman heard what happened over her, she stood stunned. A stork
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