storeboxes

Updated: May 19, 2025

There they are decorating the hitching-racks and festooning the storeboxes. There they are blocking traffic at the postoffice and depot. There they are in the hotel warming the chairs and making the guests stand up. There they are rows of retired farmers who have quit work and moved to town to block improvements and die. But they will never need anything more than burying.

Ralph Parlette - The University of Hard Knocks