This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...Robbins. Come to see the funer'l pass, I s'pose. It's been very lively in town these two weeks you've been away; there's been five funer'ls and three vandues, and two smallpox cases. I must remember and tell you all the partickelers. In the lust place, Sam Tunison and his wife's separated, for they didn't walk together at his mother's funer'l and that's always a sure sign. And Billy Peters' wife was glad when the poor old soul died, for she didn't take it hard at all, didn't cry or go on a bit, as far as I could see. And'Zekiel Acker rode in the fust carriage along with the minister, and his wife's folks in the second carriage. It don't seem to me that that was the proper thing to do. Will you look at the paper, Miss Robbins? It ain't much good; I guess I'll stop it. Aiu't never hardly any deaths in any more, nor no family troubles. Don't care for the paper, eh? Well, here's the phothygraph album. There's father and motherbeats all how old-fashioned pictures do git to look in a few short years. And there's our old minister--sich excellent doctrinal sermons as he used to preach; and then to think he'd go and leave us and go all the way to Spring Hook, Nebrasky, jist for a raise of a hundred and fifty a year on to his salary! What a savin' woman his wife used to be! and she had to be, to be sure---sich an everlastin' family of children as they did have! There, that's the woman what was hung for killin' five husbands--two of 'em she pizened and two she choked and one she killed with the gridiron when she was fryin' flapjacks. I had to pay fifty cents for that picter; thought I...