says that there's a stock story. Says he's heard it told about a thousand
differ'nt fellers. Ma calls pa and Uncle Charley 'th' arrival wits.' Says
they're kinda jealous of each other.

"Turn over."

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"That there's my cousin, Alvy Burgstresser, weth his cornet. He plays in
th' choir. First time pa heard 'm he says when he come home, 'That choir
'll never succeed till they dehorn Alvy,' he says.

"Turn over."

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"That's ma's brother-in-law, Livingston Burney, out t' Kansas. He's a
doctor, when he ain't out talkin' politics, which ain't often. He don't
half pervide fer his fambly and onct his boy run away and went clean t'
Chicago to my Aunt Sarah's and when she wrote Burney about it he sent back
a sassy letter, sayin', 'I'll have you know, madam, that I'm th' father of
th' pop'list party in Kansas.' Aunt Sade set right down and wrote him
back, 'If you ain't a better father t' th' party,' she says, 'than you've
been t' this boy, the party's in a bad way,' she says."

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"That's Mrs. Bemrose and her daughter, Lucreshy. They ust t' live
neighbors t' us, but now they've moved t' Yates City. Mrs. Bemrose is a
daisy musician. You'd jist ort t' hear her sing,