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unearths some literary gems.
***He had bravely eaten six peanut cookies from the big box presented to him by the Sunday-school mothers to show their appreciation of something or other.***What was so discouraging to a clergyman as a meeting of other clergymen?***"Who could settle down, married to that whistling tea kettle?" [Cf. "I'm a Little Teapot" grown up.]***[Bonus: Scherf, idiosyncratically, calls puffed wheat or rice--at least I infer that's what she's talking about--"balloon cereal." This phrase appears to have no presence in the dictionaries, Wikipedia, Google Books, or the Internet in general.]
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