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Out of Her Reckoning Census Tale in a New York Journal
Mrs Rafferty struggles to recount her large family in a humorous census moment. She items nine or ten children, triplets and twins, repeatedly miscounting then correcting with the final total of eight. The piece captures rural speech and a comic tally error.
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Moses
Ladies’ Delight
Charles Henry Grayson
Hilary Circle
House of Seventy-Seven Gables
Egnoggin Beach
Dorothy
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Miss Dorothy
Sarah
Mtany
Grayson
Mrs. Grayson
Mr. Huberty
Joe
Uncle Joe
Sam
Tie
Ile
Cat