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Fiction: Grampa Charlie’s Village
Agatha’s half used to it, but the half that isn’t keeps after him about bein’ late for supper and not sayin’ where he’s been or where he’s goin’, so Ellsworth’s generally in enough hot water to boil his boots.
Grampa Charlie’s Village
“…and here came Constance at a dead run, headed for home and plain cross about bein’ shanghaied to start with, and right behind her there’s at least thirty of Bill’s brother’s hogs takin’ advantage of the door bein’ open, and all of ‘em at a dead run too, that’s how porkers are.”
The Return of Pokey Belle
These stories are in the words of Charles Aloysius Cathcart, known to ‘most everyone here in Coltrane as Grampa Charlie Loy. Most evenings except Sundays, he occupied a wobbly old straight-back chair in spitting distance of the squat, rusty pot-bellied stove in Homer Henderson’s dry-goods store. They were collected by Mr. Cathcart’s grand-nephew Ernest, who [...]
Grampa Charlie’s Village – chapter two
…the first time we ever seen him he got dropped off at the barber’s, bein’ it was in the center of town and nobody’d miss the sign, it said BARBAR and was turned rightways to the shop and was the biggest one to start with.
Grampa Charlie’s Village – chapter one
These stories are in the words of Charles Aloysius Cathcart, known to ‘most everyone here in Coltrane as Grampa Charlie Loy. Most evenings except Sundays, he occupied a wobbly old straight-back chair in spitting distance of the squat, rusty pot-bellied stove in Homer Henderson’s dry-goods store.
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