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Updated: May 7, 2025

"Claybank is a good hund'ed miles from here 'n' I couldn't leave the farm now, noways; besides, the day I start a-makin' trips from home, talk'll start, an' I'll be watched close-ter'n what I'm watched now ef that's possible. But th' ain't nothin' to hender me writin' ez I can see."

Ruth McEnery Stuart - Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches