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No, sir. I won't complain. Except when I move it sharp and sudden, my arm is real numb. It's the rest of me that's in misery."
"Where?"
"My backside and my privates. I'm stuck so full of prickers, it makes me smart just to think on it.
There would be no work on this day. A day no pigs would die.
The sky's a good place to look," he said. "And I got a notion it's a good place to go.
Never miss a chance...to keep your mouth shut.
Papa, ain't it a caution that we can only eat two legs off a frog, 'stead of four."
And he said: "Rob, here's what you do. You catch a real big bullfrog and make friends with him. And teach him to jump backwards. That'll make his front legs big as the hind.
I stayed there until the fire died. So it would not have to die alone.
Oh, Papa. My heart's broke.
Fences sure are funny, aren't they, Papa?"
"How so?"
"Well, you be friends with Mr. Tanner and all. But we keep this fence up like it was war. I guess that humans are the only things on earth that take everything they own and fence it off.
When you re the only one to do something it always gets done.
Writers, good ones, don't tell stories.
Characters show stories.
A plot is two dogs and one bone.
A Long Way from Chicago is the funniest book I have read in a while. You will enjoy the antics of Grandma and the love and dismay her grandchildren feel for her
