. "The fambly album"; another "fotygraft album," shown to the new preacher by Rebecca Sparks Peters, aged eleven; the "bigger album from upstairs". This heres Jabez Henry, a feller that ust twork fer Gramma Sparks. Theyre awful funnypeople, them Henrys. Jabes father, hes aturribul hand t blow, and one tinie he says, Ikin pitch more hayn ary man in Peory County,and Cash kin pitch as much as I kin! he \\as one of his other sons. His real namesCashus, after one of them old Roman kings,yuh know. One time, when Jabe ^^as a little feller, hesays t his pa, Dad, he says, your head lookslike
. "The fambly album"; another "fotygraft album," shown to the new preacher by Rebecca Sparks Peters, aged eleven; the "bigger album from upstairs". This heres Jabez Henry, a feller that ust twork fer Gramma Sparks. Theyre awful funnypeople, them Henrys. Jabes father, hes aturribul hand t blow, and one tinie he says, Ikin pitch more hayn ary man in Peory County,and Cash kin pitch as much as I kin! he \\as one of his other sons. His real namesCashus, after one of them old Roman kings,yuh know. One time, when Jabe ^^as a little feller, hesays t his pa, Dad, he says, your head lookslike a hurrahs nest, he says—and now look athim, will yuh? Hes proudern all git out uhthat buzzly hair, Jabe >Del Sedjwick, that is, brother t Trace,and his pardner onct in th show business. Heust t have a speech, Del did, somethin likethis: Before gradgeratin from Oxford Uni-versity, friends, I learnt that Dante, thatgreat Eye-talian poet, onct says t a poet calledVirgil: What my eyes shall see my heart shallbelieve, he says—and so on. It was a daisyspeech, only pa says, Them fellers lived overa thousand years apart, Del! That so? saysDel. ?<Well, it might a ben a million and thesejays wouldnt know no differnt. Know any-body that lived a million years ahead uhDante?Id jist as leave use him, he says.
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