Cuyahoga by Pete Beatty

Author:Pete Beatty
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2020-10-06T00:00:00+00:00

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Big were not the only absence at the Stiles homeplace. Miss Cloe Inches remained run off since the last days of July. I would like to amend the record somewhat regarding Cloe. It is true that she were given to running off, but she were just as given to running back. She did not have a monopoly on flight. In truth, running off were something of a catching disease in the western country, and Cloe were admirable in that she bothered to return. Folks absconded for every cause you could think of. Bankruptcy and shame and ruptures. There was a whole dictionary of reasons for flight.

To ABSQUATULATE were the scientific term for departing with haste.

You already learned what it meant to SWARTHOUT.

To SPURGEON were to run off from obligations of family. After Hiram Spurgeon, the blacksmith, who had quit his kin after he had ten daughters and no sons.

To STRANG were to run off from your own wedding, a type of special SPURGEONing. After Miss Sarabeth Strang, the maid.

Sometimes we liked to say that the night pigs had eaten the vanished party. She is with the pigs now  or  You will want to ask the pigs about him

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