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The Grandfather Clock
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Barkis is willin',
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so as we saw some busts of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin in plaster of paris we bought them, for they look almost like marble and Grandfather and Grandmother like them. Speaking of busts reminds me of a conundrum I heard while I was gone.
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How do we know that Poe's Raven was a dissipated bird? Because he was all night on a bust. Grandfather took us down to the bank to see how he had it made over while we were gone. We asked him why he had a beehive hanging out for a sign and he said,
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Bees store their honey in the summer for winter use and men ought to store their money against a rainy day. He has a swing door to the bank with
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Push on it. He said he saw a man studying it one day and finally looking up he spelled p-u-s-h, push (and pronounced it like mush).
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What does that mean? Grandfather showed him what it meant and he thought it was very convenient. He was about as thick-headed as the man who saw some snuffers and asked what they were for and when told to snuff the candle with, he immediately snuffed the candle with his fingers and put it in the snuffers and said,
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Law sakes, how handy!
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Dr. Busby, and another
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The Old Soldier and His Dog. There are counters with them, and if you don't have the card called for you have to pay one into the pool. It is real fun. They all said they had a very nice time, indeed, when they bade Grandmother good-night, and said:
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Mrs. Beals, you must let Carrie and Anna come and see us some time,
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The Child's Book on Repentance. When Anna saw the title, she whispered to me and said if she had done anything she was sorry for she was willing to be forgiven. I am afraid she will never read hers but I will lend her mine. Miss Lucy Ellen Guernsey, of Rochester, gave me
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Christmas Earnings and wrote in it,
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Carrie C. Richards with the love of the author.