“A good while back, I guess long enough before you was born, young man, old Captain Whipple built a schooner at Marietta, and took her down the Ohio and Mississippi to New Orleans.
— from The Fortune of the Landrays by Vaughan Kester
“Good Lord, Ellen Brewster, you ain't going to work in a shoe-shop?”
— from The Portion of Labor by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
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