of-july

Updated: May 27, 2025

It was like setting a match to one of those Fourth- of-July flower-pot sky-rocket affairs. That question was the match that set him going, and thereafter he was a gushing geyser of names and dates. I never heard anything like it. He began at the Blaisdells, but skipped almost at once to the Blakes there were a lot of them near us. In five minutes he had me dumb from sheer stupefaction.

Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter - Oh, Money! Money!