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And the storm went on. It roared, it bellowed, and it screeched: it thumped and it kerwhalloped. The great seas would come bunt agin the rocks, as if they were bound to go right though to Jersey City, which they used to say was the end of the world.

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Calvin had got the habit of takin' care of somebody, and it growed on him like drink.

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Once there was an elephant Who tried to use the telephant — No! No! I mean an elephone Who tried to use the telephone.

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You couldn't find nobody deader, not if you'd sarched for a week. Why, door nails, and Julius Caesar, and things o' that description, would ha' been lively compared with your poor ma when I see her. Lively! that's what they'd ha' been.

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I eat till, honest, I felt every button on all my clo'es. The folks where we were stayin' were the old-fashioned hospitable kind; they didn't let you off till your jaws struck work and wouldn't wag no more.

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Laura E. Richards

Laura E. Richards
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Born: February 27, 1850
Died: January 14, 1943 (aged 92)
Bio: Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards was an American writer. She wrote more than 90 books including biographies, poetry, and several for children.
Known for:
  1. Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 (1916)
  2. Captain January (1890)
  3. Queen Hildegarde (1889)
  4. The Green Satin Gown (1903)
  5. The golden windows (1903)

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