The Fotygraft Album Shown to the New Neighbor by Rebecca Sparks Peters Aged Eleven
   Chicago

   The Reilly & Britton Co.

   Copyright, 1915

   by

   The Reilly & Britton Co.

   First Edition Published May 7, 1915

   Second Edition Published Aug. 23, 1915

   Third Edition Published Nov. 10, 1915

   Fourth Edition Published Dec. 15, 1915

   Fifth Edition Published Jan. 5, 1916

   Sixth Edition Published May 1, 1916

   Seventh Edition Published Sept. 1, 1916

   "Why, how d'do, Mrs. Miggs? Come right on in. Ma's jist run over t' Smith's a minute t' borruh some thread and some m'lasses and a couple uh aigs. Aw! yes, come on—she'll be right back. Let's see: S'pose we set on th' sofa and I'll show yuh th' album, so's yuh'll kinda begin t' know some of our folks. We like t' be real neighborly and make new folks feel t' home. There! now we're fixed.

   "This here first one's ma when she was little. Ain't she cute? Her Uncle Seth kep' a store up t' Davenport and he give her them furs. Real mink, I think it was.

   "Turn over."

   "That's Aunt Mary Jane Darnell. Her jimpson-weed salve and peach perserves was th' best he ever see, pa says. She couldn't abide a man that primped."

   "Them's grampa and gramma Sparks, ma's pa and ma. Grampa liked bees and made lots of money off'm honey. He was awful good t' gramma.

   "Ma says you kin allus trust a bee man."


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