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'Mary Smith' Wakes Up Village Sleepyheads

In the early 20th century, many of England's workers awoke to the tap, tap, tap of their town's "knocker-up." In her children's book Mary Smith, Andrea U'Ren follows a day in the life of a knocker-up armed with a pea shooter.

'Mary Smith' Wakes Up Village Sleepyheads

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