r'lation

Updated: May 1, 2025

I want it to cry in," said the Orphan importantly. "A funeral?" I asked. "In Our Square? Whose?" "My cousin Minnie. She's goin' to be buried in God's Acre, an' I'm invited 'cause I'm a r'lation. She married a sporting gentleman named Hines an' she died yesterday," said the precocious Orphan.

Samuel Hopkins Adams - From a Bench in Our Square