Excerpt from Abe Martin's Primer: The Collected Writings of Abe Martin and His Brown County, Indiana, Neighbors
Some folks are called green when they're only respectable.
What has become 0' all th' child wonders we used t' know in school?
Mrs. Birdie Moon, whose brilliant weddin' wuz th' event 0' th' Yuletide, would like \t, trade some silver sugar trays fer a ton o' coal.
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