Neighborhood Stories
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Gale Zona. Neighborhood Stories
PREFACE
A GREAT TREE
EXIT CHARITY
THE TIME HAS COME
THE FACE OF FRIENDSHIP VILLAGE
THE FLOOD
THE PARTY
THE BIGGEST BUSINESS
THE PRODIGAL GUEST
MR. DOMBLEDON
HUMAN
THE HOME-COMING
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I never had felt so much like Christmas, said Calliope Marsh, as I did that year.
“I wish’t,” I says, when it got ’most time, “I wish’t I knew somebody to have a Christmas tree with.”
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Mis’ Sykes didn’t rightly seem to know – at least she didn’t say. But she give me to understand that her mind run right along in the self-same groove it had had made for it, cozy.
Somehow, the longer I live, the less sense I seem to have. There’s some things I’ve learned from twenty-five to thirty times in my life, and yet I can’t seem to remember them no more than I can remember whether it’s sulphite or sulphate of soda that I take for my quinsy. And one of these is about taking things casual.
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