# The Mountain School-Teacher

Author: Post, Melville Davisson, 1869-1930

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51958

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Mountain+School-Teacher+Post&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

|THERE had once been a path along the backbone of the mountain, but the wilderness had undertaken to remove it, and had almost succeeded. The wind had gathered bits of moss, twigs and dead stuff into the slight depression. The great hickories had covered it with leaves. The rain had packed it. There was no longer a path, only an open way between the trees running down the gentle slope of the ridge to the mountain road. The ridge was heavily wooded. The primeval forest was there. Great hickories shot up sixty feet without a limb, and so close that a man putting out his hand could reach from one tree to another. A gigantic poplar now and then arose, a sugar maple, an oak--huge at the butt,...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mountain-school-teacher-51958/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mountain-school-teacher-51958/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mountain-school-teacher-51958/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mountain-school-teacher-51958/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mountain-school-teacher-51958/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mountain-school-teacher-51958/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mountain-school-teacher-51958/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mountain-school-teacher-51958/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mountain-school-teacher-51958/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mountain-school-teacher-51958/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mountain-school-teacher-51958/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mountain-school-teacher-51958/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mountain-school-teacher-51958/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mountain-school-teacher-51958/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mountain-school-teacher-51958/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mountain-school-teacher-51958/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mountain-school-teacher-51958/chapters/9/index.md)
- [mill. There the stream descended swiftly over ridges of sandstone into a](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mountain-school-teacher-51958/chapters/3/index.md)