Wade, Blanche Elizabeth · Chicago, A.C. McClurg and company · leaf 85
the wayyou re having it set up, and thatis you aint a-going to wear your-self out trapesing all over theworld to get somebody elses old,cast-oif pedestal. There aintnothing more silly to my mindthan collecting things that be-longed to other folkses grand-mothers. Why, what good arethey when you get… … A GARDEN IN PINK plate because my great-grandmother, — she that wasPatty Avery, ■^- used to eat off of it. No, you cantsay nothing hke that, for you dont know whosegreat-grandmother ate off of it, nor even if it wasold enough for anybodys grfeat-grandmother to haveeat off of it. All folks seem to…
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