. "The fambly album"; another "fotygraft album," shown to the new preacher by Rebecca Sparks Peters, aged eleven; the "bigger album from upstairs". Thats Nels Quist. He ust t be UncleJerry Sparkss hired man. Onct he was downt Peory and he seen some nightshirts in a storewinduh, and liked m, but he didnt know whatthey was. He went inside and says, How muchban dem shirt? Thems nightshirts, says thman. Nels thought he said nice shirts, andhe says, Jou bet, by gol; AyU take two, hesays. Well, sir, he took and wore one t a says when Nels got that long tail tucked intohis spring bottom pant
. "The fambly album"; another "fotygraft album," shown to the new preacher by Rebecca Sparks Peters, aged eleven; the "bigger album from upstairs". Thats Nels Quist. He ust t be UncleJerry Sparkss hired man. Onct he was downt Peory and he seen some nightshirts in a storewinduh, and liked m, but he didnt know whatthey was. He went inside and says, How muchban dem shirt? Thems nightshirts, says thman. Nels thought he said nice shirts, andhe says, Jou bet, by gol; AyU take two, hesays. Well, sir, he took and wore one t a says when Nels got that long tail tucked intohis spring bottom pants he was the comicalestsight yuh ever see. Nels didnt wear no neck-tie, cause that would a hid th said good night on th buttons. Folks madefun of Nels somethin* awful, and pa says if Nelsheard two fellers say good night t each otherafter that fer a year they both liable t havet fight him. Turn That theres Dan Twigg, a sort of a cousin,or somethin, of pas. Hes a purty good feller,as a rule, but now n then he will git on a spree,and then he alius gits into trouble. One time,in Peory, he come along t where there was a lotuh apples in a winduh, and a sign sayin, Onethousand dollars t anybody findin a worm inthese apples. Dan, he goes right in and com-mences hunt in, and before they ketched himlied bit open half a barl of Vn. He got finedten dollars fer it, and I think it was kindamean, cause how in nation was a feller t finda worm wethout they let him look fer it? Turn over.
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