Homespun America: A Collection of Writings--happy, Somber, Gay, Serious, Rough, Subtle, and Otherwise--designed to Capture the Essential Quality of the Free United StatesWallace Brockway, Bart Keith Winer |
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... folks can't have up in the country , and if I should write to some of you once or twice a week , she thinks it would ... folks are up ; for these Portland folks are none of your starters in the morning . I've known my father many a time ...
... folks can't have up in the country , and if I should write to some of you once or twice a week , she thinks it would ... folks are up ; for these Portland folks are none of your starters in the morning . I've known my father many a time ...
Page 77
... folks act very silly - so do the newspapers . Rum makes folks see double- so do the newspapers . Sometimes rum gets folks so they can't see at all --so do the newspapers . Rum , if they take tu much of it , makes folks sick to the ...
... folks act very silly - so do the newspapers . Rum makes folks see double- so do the newspapers . Sometimes rum gets folks so they can't see at all --so do the newspapers . Rum , if they take tu much of it , makes folks sick to the ...
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... folks lived for about five years , while Conky was a boy , in the old Ransom house . Their next neighbors was the Cooleys , and just over across the road lived the Kelseys . Maybe you ' ve heard of the Cooley- Kelsey debate ? No ? Funny ...
... folks lived for about five years , while Conky was a boy , in the old Ransom house . Their next neighbors was the Cooleys , and just over across the road lived the Kelseys . Maybe you ' ve heard of the Cooley- Kelsey debate ? No ? Funny ...
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