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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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10 intently into the wealth of the big tin dipper–you miss the essence of the joy if you don’t look at the water–followed by another pair of swallows. Keep this up for ten minutes; two blissful gulps of ambrosia to each two minutes. After which, having trifled sufficiently with your parched system, you will settle down to business and behave just like the horse; but think how much more pleasure you have had in arriving at your ultimate satisfaction. My host was a colored man. He has been in this section of country for over twenty years, and owns 760 acres. His son owns 240 adjoining, so they have an even thousand acres between them. His house is small but comfortable, and the living rooms showed a very fair degree of appreciation of the aesthetics. And he was hospitable indeed; I did not care to eat, as I had a hot walk ahead, and it annoyed him greatly that I would not consent to his “firing up” and cooking everything in sight. He named a number of tempting things, trying to break down my resolve, and incidentally surprising me at the menu available. I had noticed large baskets of freshly gathered cucumbers in the kitchen, and finally I compromised by telling him that if he was willing I would eat some cucumbers. This struck him as the height of the ridiculous, and his hearty laughter as he made preparations was the only distinctively African thing I had noted about him, barring his shady complexion. He could not get over the hunor of my whimsical notion, though his
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