id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt nyp.33433076059314 Micheaux, Oscar, The homesteader : a novel by Oscar Micheaux ... ; illustrated by W.M. Farrow 1917 .txt text/plain 128579 10360 90 of our story, the girl, his dream girl, Agnes Stewart, happened to be white, while he, Jean Baptiste, The Homesteader, was a Negro. A MILE north from where stood the house of St. Jean Baptiste, there lived a quaint old man. When Jean Baptiste left the town for his little sod house "Just think, my girl," he has said time and again, "supposing you had not stumbled into that house, you would admired the man in Jean Baptiste, and she had not thought took only such slight consideration of the girl's father's profession that he had good cause to recall some time later. Poor Jean Baptiste your life might not have later come to "Mr. Baptiste, please meet my father," said Orlean when Baptiste had come into the family, married her, and apparently forgot to tell the Reverend that he was a great JEAN BAPTISTE was thoughtful for a long time ./cache/nyp.33433076059314.pdf ./txt/nyp.33433076059314.txt