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"Uncle Adoniram Burgstresser, ma's uncle. He was a farmer and hardshell
preacher. Onct when ma says, 'Uncle Ad was a power!' pa says, 'Git out!
You don't mean power, you mean pow-wower.' That made ma purty mad, I tell
you. Uncle Ad was awful clost. One time he went into a hardware store t'
git a tin cup and after he'd looked careful at sev'ral he says, 'How much
is this one?' 'Nickel,' says th' storekeeper. Then Uncle Ad says, 'I
s'pose yuh make th' usual reduction t' th' clergy?' he says.

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"That there's Emma Beale. She's an awful nice, refined lady. Why, one
time when her pa was a-runnin' a tailor shop and Emma was workin' there,
pa took a pair of pants t' have 'm pressed fer a weddin' and when he went
t' git 'm Emma says, 'Mr. Peters,' she says, 'did you know there was a
hole in one of th' limbs of yer trousers?' she says. And pa, he jist
haw-hawed right in her face, th' old coarse thing!"

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"I don't know who them fellers are, 'cept that big one in front there.
That's Ole Ensgaard. Ust t' be my Uncle Joe's hired man. Afterwards he
went up t' Dakota and got 'lected t' th' legislature. Pa says he was awful
green and they told him all he'd need t' do was t' write Mr. Jim Hill t'
let him know he was there and he'd git a railroad pass. So Ole writes,
'Mester Yim Hill, Sen-ta Pole: Ay ban har--Ole Ensgaard,' and Mr. Hill
writes right back: 'Ay ban har, too.--Yim Hill.' Uncle Charley Sparks, he