"Turn over."

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"That's Cousin Charlie Freemantle--pa's cousin, he is. He's a rollin'
stone--first one place, then another; never satisfied and never gittin'
nothin' ahead. He ust t' be allus comin' 'round tellin' where he was goin'
next and what big things he was goin' t' do when he got there, till ma got
most awful tired of it and says t' him, 'Charlie,' she says, 'did yuh ever
reflect that wherever yuh go yuh take yerself weth yuh?' she says.

"Turn over."

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"That's Mr. and Mrs. Bundy. He was a nice man but she's quarrelsomer 'n
all git out. Don't she look jist like a settin' hen? Onct when Mr. Bundy
died why Mrs. Prescott that moved t' Peory she wrote Mrs. Bundy a real
nice letter of consolence, I guess it is yuh call it--anyway, Mrs. Bundy
fired up, quicker 'n a wink, and says, 'Uh-huh!' she says, 'well, that's
all very nice but it don't pay fer that there spade and waterin' pot them
Prescotts borruhed off 'm us and never brung back. I'll learn that tribe
they can't soft-soap me!' she says.

"Turn over."

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"That's Bige Turner. He ust t' work in th' print shop fer pa and he
certainly was a bad aig, I want yuh t' know. Onct he slep' out on th'