. "The fambly album"; another "fotygraft album," shown to the new preacher by Rebecca Sparks Peters, aged eleven; the "bigger album from upstairs". Martin Estey, that is, a secont cousin uhpas. Hes th slowest talkin feller a-livin,I guess. Pa says one time Mart and his pa wasout in th field and somethin got th matterweth th binder. Mart was monkeyin wethth thing, a-tryin* t fix it, when th horsesstarted up and run th needle right smackthrough Marts hand; and Mart, he drawls out,Hold—on—paw—Im—caught, he says. Marts awful close, too. Hes runnin thice cream parlor over t Yates City now, andhes g
. "The fambly album"; another "fotygraft album," shown to the new preacher by Rebecca Sparks Peters, aged eleven; the "bigger album from upstairs". Martin Estey, that is, a secont cousin uhpas. Hes th slowest talkin feller a-livin,I guess. Pa says one time Mart and his pa wasout in th field and somethin got th matterweth th binder. Mart was monkeyin wethth thing, a-tryin* t fix it, when th horsesstarted up and run th needle right smackthrough Marts hand; and Mart, he drawls out,Hold—on—paw—Im—caught, he says. Marts awful close, too. Hes runnin thice cream parlor over t Yates City now, andhes got a swarm uh bees in th upstairs while back he come into pas offus and hunground fer a spell wethout sayin nothin, butby-m-by he says, whiny-like, Merv, them beesis a-cheatin me. Theyre a-puttin moren apound uh honey in a comb, he Heres Imogene Penelope Lounsbury, thpoetess. She went f school weth ma and comeshere now and then, and stays awhile, and herand Ilas what pa calls a reglar, world re-formin debauch. She wrote: Oh! crush, crush, crushThis bleedin heart!And in thy crushin triumph— I dont know th rest of it, but its a-wfulgood potry; reminds a body of Tennyson andWill Carleton. Pa, he dont like Imogene, cause shes awomans righter and W. C. T. U. One time,after arguin wetli hiimy, pa says, Well, \m, IIlOpe / dont live t see prohibition, and ,she comes back weth, So do I, Merv, feryoud be most awful out uh place and lonesome,she says. That made pa s mad he jist fairlyraired up.
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