Word: pregnantly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third couple consists of a young girl who is pregnant but has no husband, and her boyfriend, who loves her, but doesn't think he would make a good husband, although he has made a good father...
...mystery is complicated when the body of a stillborn baby is discovered nearby-no girl in the village, as someone remarks, was known to have been as pregnant as all that. The local justice of the peace, who is also a miner and a poet, follows the crime to its solution. But violence, although it is one of the elements of life in Novelist Gallie's village, is not the dominant one. The book begins with poetry-impudent, rope-skipping verses shrilled out by little girls-and it ends the same way, as the justice of the peace...