A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in StoriesA boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother. |
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Prologue | 1 |
The Mouse in the Milk | 17 |
A OneWoman Crime Wave | 37 |
Copyright | |
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Askew Aunt Mae Aunt Puss Barnie Buchanan biplane Blue Bird blue ribbon boat boots Bootsie bottle boys catfish chair Chicago Chicago Loop cobhouse Coffee Pot Cafe Cowgill Cripe crowd daddy Dowdel dress drifters Effie Wilcox Ernie eyes farm feet fish front door front room girl going gooseberry Grandma turned Grandpa Dowdel's hand head heard horse hung Hupmobile John Dillinger jumped keep kids kitchen kitten knew L. J. Weidenbach lady looked Mary Alice Mary Alice's Mildred Mildred's milk Miss Butler Miz Eubanks Nehi never night nodded Piatt County porch privy pulled Ray Veech RICHARD PECK ride screen door sheriff Shirley Temple shoes Shotgun Cheatham snowball bushes stood stove stovepipe stovepipe hat Stubbs stuck tell Terraplane thing thought took Uncle Grady uptown Vandalia voice Wabash Wabash Railroad watched Winchester Model 21 window yard