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Updated: May 11, 2025

Malachi, who was nearly twice his age, and who had had twice his experience, might be all right until he reached that old Burgundy, but "dere warn't nobody could handle dem corks but Todd; Malachi'd bust 'em sho' and spile 'em 'fo' he could git back." "'Spose dere ain't no gemman and no letter, den what?" he asked as a last resort. "Then come straight home."

Francis Hopkinson Smith - Kennedy Square