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Updated: May 29, 2025

'I saw all my friends was goin', he said, 'an' th'd be nobody left in the country but me. "I reckon I can bite them ca'tridges off with my eye-teeth, if I really want to do it," I says, an' I was on the train an' half-way to Danbury before I recollected that Mrs. Todd had told me to bring home a dime's wuth o' coffee an' a pound o' sugar.

Albert Bigelow Paine - Dwellers in Arcady: The Story of an Abandoned Farm