cloonan's

Updated: April 30, 2025

The figure beside the ill-kept stove, bowl in lap and paring potatoes with the long fleshless hands of a bird, raised a still more fleshless face. "Howdy!" "Cloonan's been running this shebang for two years now, Peachy, and there ain't nothing much she can't learn you about my ways. They ain't hard. Look! Porcelain-lined sink. It's got Twenty-third Street beat some, 'ain't it?" "Yes, Jerry."

Fannie Hurst - Humoresque: A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It