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Sketches New and Old

CHAPTER V
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It was enormous style for those days.

Dead people came all the way from the Alleghanies to see his things--the party that occupied the grave next to mine remembers it well.

Now do you see that individual going along with a piece of a head-board under his arm, one leg-bone below his knee gone, and not a thing in the world on?
That is Barstow Dalhousie, and next to Columbus Jones he was the most sumptuously outfitted person that ever entered our cemetery.

We are all leaving.

We cannot tolerate the treatment we are receiving at the hands of our descendants.


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