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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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18 doing it on a wager, only I was too white; had I been sick, or just inside? I could not resist it: I told him “Inside, sick; sick inside” –just for the beautiful sound of it; and when he roared his appreciation I admitted that it was an untruth; that I had been inside, but not sick. He was still rankling over the affront given him by a “professional” during a previous seasons; upon being offered a ride to town the man had declined, stating that he was in a hurry. — I believe I could anchor five horses to a plow, but I never expect to. Over the ridge, with the beforementioned hypothetical drop seeping merrily toward the Beaver, I photographed a farm, to show the penchant of the agriculturalist to drain his barnyard through his dooryard. What’s the use of picking an easy one like “the way of a serpent upon a rock” when a hard nut like this is hanging from the shagbark bough? If you want entertainment, just take to noticing farm layouts, and see how often this happens. And notice how many farmhouses are entirely unscreened; and how few farmers know what “ventilation” means; and observe the chumminess of the hogs and chickens with the back (or front) door; and contemplate the milk-cans unwashed and with the lids off, and the garbage scattered about the dooryard or standing in buckets or boxes. If farmhouse were huddled together as town and city houses are, with the utter disregard or ignorance of sanitation which is almost invariable, there would not be
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Rights
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