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...world in which dimes were common. On the barren slope above Blackjack Mine, Bracky Baldridge owned a garden patch, a shack with puncheon floors, a black birch tree. When the mines along the creek closed one March, Bracky's no-good cousins, Harl and Tibb Logan, came to live with the Baldridges. The dried beans ran out fast. Then soft, lazy Uncle Samp came and stayed, his thin grey mustache so long he wrapped the ends around his ears. "Even if they are your blood kin, we can't feed them much longer," Mother said...
...Harl and Tibb had a secret joke; the family liked to get away from them and sit together in the smokehouse. "A big house draws kinfolks like a horse draws nitflies," said Mother. One rainy night Harl and Tibb had a long spell of snickering in the room where they slept with Uncle Samp. Next morning they left :arly. When Uncle Samp woke up, he roared and raged out of the house: what was left of his mustache stuck out "like two small grey horns." When he was gone, Mother got the children to move the beds, stove and furniture...
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