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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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19 a farmer extent in a few weeks, which would be annoying. I went to a farmhouse for a drink, and as the place looked reasonably clean I asked if I could get something to eat. Little Brother went in to inquire, and came back to say naively that Sister said that Father was away, and that she was afraid I couldn’t. So I tried another farm a mile farther along. Baching; had two spuds cooked but ate ’em himself; nothin’ goin’ forward in a food way until dark. He was mowing Bouteloua oligostachya , which he informed me was buffalo grass. Being hungry and a little peevish about the spuds, I let him go hang with his mildewed botany. Taking up two notches in my belt, I went to another farm–two miles–and walked up to the door. A bewhiskered farmer was tilted back in a chair against the wall. A boy of 14 was tilted back in another chair against another wall. A girl of 17 was tilted back in another chair against nothin’. I asked if I could get something to eat. The farmer said naught, but looked quizzically at the girl, who also said naught. After contemplating the girl for about a minute, the farmer turned his head languidly in my direction and said, “It was only yesterday two fellers come through here and wanted something to eat.” “Well,” I remarked, as I took up my luggage, “it seems to me they showed darned poor judgement.” And I trudged sternly out of the yard. For about a minute I was mad, plenty, for I was hungry; but after the scant sixty seconds had
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