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Chapter 1. In Which The Coney Island Microbe Enters Our Quiet Home
_ CHAPTER ONE. IN WHICH THE CONEY ISLAND MICROBE ENTERS OUR QUIET HOME
When Serenus Gowdey got back last fall from Brooklyn, where his twin brother, Sylvester, lives, he couldn‘t talk about anything but Coney Island. He slighted religion, stopped runnin‘ down relations, politics wuz left in the lurch, and cows, hens, and crops, wuz to him as if they wuzn‘t. He acted crazy as a loon about that Island.
Why, Sylvester‘ses wife told Miss Dagget and she told the Editor of the Augur‘s wife, and she told Ben Lowry‘s widder, and she told the Editor of the Gimlet‘s mother-in-law, and she told me. It come straight, that Serenus only stayed there nights and to a early breakfast, but spent his hull durin‘ time to Coney Island, and he a twin too. She said Sylvester felt so hurt she wuz afraid it would make a lastin‘ hardness. And it made me enough trouble too, yes indeed! for he would come and pour out his praises of th
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