" ... "Really, I think it
must be hereditary; it runs in our family. I had an aunt and her
hair was snow-white at twenty-one and my grandmother was the same
way." ... "Oh yes, the suffering is something terrible. You've
had it yourself in a mild form and of course you know. The last
time they operated on me, I was on the table an hour and forty
minutes--mind you, an hour and forty minutes by the clock--and
for three days and nights they didn't know whether I would live
another minute."
A crash of glass.
"Stew'd, I ashidently turn' over m' drink--bring me nozher brand'
'n' sozza." ... "Just a minute, Mr. Blosser, I want to tell my
husband about it--he'll be awful interested. Say, listen, Poppa,
this gentleman here knows Maxie Hockstein out in Grand Rapids."
... "Do you think so, really? A lot of people have said that very
same thing to me. They come up to me and say 'I know you must be
a Southerner because you have such a true Southern accent.' I
suppose I must come by it naturally, for while I was born in New
Jersey, my mother was a member of a very old Virginia family and
we've always been very strong Southern sympathizers and I went to
a finishing school in Baltimore and I was always being mistaken
for a Southern girl." ... "Well, I sure had enough of it to do me
for one spell. I seen the whole shootin' match and I don't regret
what it cost me, but, believe me, little old Keokuk is goin' to
look purty good to me when I get back there.
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