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Title
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Dundy, Hitchcock, Redwillow, Furnas Counties, 1912
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Date
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1912
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Creator
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Frank Shoemaker
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Description
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Sandhills Narratives
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Identifier
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321301-191
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Transcription
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6 which was in progress; for it was a Saturday Night of Merriment. It was amusing to see the real pleasure which the dancers were having; it was even amusing to see and hear the fiddler, who surely will have ultimate pumishment if there be justice in the universe–though I can not conceive how it may be made adequate. But my amusement ended here. Hied I to my room after midnight, turned down the top sheet of the bed * * * * * I paid my bill at one o’clock, during an interim in the dance, and took to the open– the glorious, clean open, regardless of whether it would rain or no. The sky was still overcast, and there was some lightning. It is not easy to find a good sleeping site in a weedy valley at 1 a.m. And it is not good to get too far away from shelter on a frowning night. The solution of the problem was found in a prosaic instrument of commerce known as a cattle chute. It has a gratifying era of desuetude, and I rolled up in my blanket on this bovine Bridge of Sighs, quite content with the change of abode, and wondering with some amusement just what the landlord would think when he viewed the entomological collection which I had left neatly pinned to the table in my room. I had perhaps fallen short of correct scientific usage by not labeling them; but almost everyone knows some species on sight. I got away at daybreak, following the railroad track for a few
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Rights
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