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Chapters 1 - 3

· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Simon the Fiddler, Paulette Jiles. Harper Collins, 2020.

· Simon the fiddler had managed to evade the Confederate conscription men because he looked much younger than he was.

· His hair was reddish brown and curly, and he was short and spare.

· In October he had been engaged to play at a barbecue in East Texas, in plantation country.

· A banjo player told Simon that the conscription men had already come.

· Simon made to leave so as to avoid the conscription men.

· The plantation owner came hurrying through the crowd and took Simon by the arm and led to out to the icehouse to hide.

· Simon hid in the pit until it was safe to come out.

· Simon played throughout Central and East Texas in salon and pleasure palaces, for weddings and funerals.

· It was not...

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