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"Why, how d'do, Mrs. Miggs? Come right on in. Ma's jist run over t'
Smith's a minute t' borruh some thread and some m'lasses and a couple uh
aigs. Aw! yes, come on--she'll be right back. Let's see: S'pose we set on
th' sofa and I'll show yuh th' album, so's yuh'll kinda begin t' know some
of our folks. We like t' be real neighborly and make new folks feel t'
home. There! now we're fixed.

"This here first one's ma when she was little. Ain't she cute? Her Uncle
Seth kep' a store up t' Davenport and he give her them furs. Real mink, I
think it was.

"Turn over."

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"That's Aunt Mary Jane Darnell. Her jimpson-weed salve and peach
perserves was th' best he ever see, pa says. She couldn't abide a man that
primped."

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"Them's grampa and gramma Sparks, ma's pa and ma. Grampa liked bees and