Ptomaine Street: The Tale of Warble Petticoat

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Wells Carolyn. Ptomaine Street: The Tale of Warble Petticoat

FOREWORD TO A FOOLISH BOOK

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

CHAPTER XI

CHAPTER XII

CHAPTER XIII

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On a Pittsburgh block, where three generations ago might have been heard Indian war-whoops—yes, and the next generation wore hoops, too—a girl child stood, in evident relief, far below the murky gray of the Pittsburgh sky.

She couldn’t see an Indian, not even a cigar store one, and she wouldn’t have noticed him anyway, for she was shaking with laughter.

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Her ambition was to get married. Her sister had; her mother had; she politely assumed her grandmother had.

She would.

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