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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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21 from the deserts of the southwest into our sandhills each summer. The region looked very snaky and inviting, but I did not succeed in finding a rattlesnake. I have read that in England the penalty for walking on a railroad track is arrest, while in American it is death. In spite of this, I took to the rail for a time after leaving Cedar Bluff, for it is the most direct route and the track is “mud-ballasted” and consequently upholstered with a fine crop of grass. The path in the middle afforded fine walking, and aside from a turn of a few miles north to view the country, I stayed by the track through Marion and Danbury . At the latter place , in the absence of anything to eat, I bought some cookies, and in the absence of any civilized drink, a bottle of pop; for I had had enough of going to sleep without a drink. Laden with this cargo, I lay my course due eastward until two bells of the first night watch (9 p.m.; landlubbers please note), when I spoke a square-rigged alfalfa stack anchored two cable lengths to larboard, and hove to under its bows in about two fathoms of dew, having run my 36 knots( 42 jog-graphic miles). I wound my watch, but didn’t set any, and this came near being my undoing. I had impartially divided my cookies as between “supper” and breakfast. Having eat my supper cookies and my grop, I turned in, becoming aware after an interval that I was being boarded by a pirate, and to make it more confusing, that he expected me to board him. A mouse had got into the hold and
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