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obody loses all the time i had an uncle namedSol who was a born failure andnearly everybody said he should have goneinto vaudeville perhaps because my Uncle Sol couldsing McCann He Was A Diver on Xmas Eve like Hell Itself whichmay or may not account for the fact that my Uncle Sol indulged in that possibly most inexcusableof all to use a highfalootin phraseluxuries that is or towit farming and beit needlesslyadded my Uncle Sol’s farmfailed because the chickensate the vegetables somy Uncle Sol had achicken farm till theskunks ate the chickens when my Uncle Solhad a skunk farm butthe skunks caught cold anddied and somy Uncle Sol imitated theskunks in a subtle manner or by drowning himself in the watertankbut somebody who’d given my Uncle Sol a VictorVictrola and records while he lived presented tohim upon the auspicious occasion of his decease ascrumptious not to mention splendiferous funeral withtall boys in black gloves and flowers and everything and i remember we all cried like the Missouriwhen my Uncle Sol’s coffin lurched becausesomebody pressed a button(and down wentmy UncleSol and started a worm farm)
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