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The Confessions of Artemas Quibble (Classic Reprint)
The Confessions of Artemas Quibble - Classic Reprint Author:Arthur Cheney Train THE CONFESSIONS OF ARTEMAS QUIBBLE CHAPTER I IWAS born in the town of Lynn, Massachusetts, upon the twenty-second day of February, in the year 1855. Unlike most writers of similar memoirs, I shall cast no aspersions upon the indigent by stating that my parents were poor but honest. They were poor and honest, as indeed, so far as I have been able... more » to ascertain, have been all the Quibbles since the founder of the family came over on the good ship Susan and Ellen in 1635 and, after marrying a lady's maid who had been his fellow passenger, settled in the township of Weston, built a mill, and divided his time equally between selling rum to the Indians and rearing a numerous progeny. My father, the Reverend Ezra Quibble, was, to be sure, poor enough. The salary that he received as pastor of his church was meagre to the degree of necessitating my wearing his over-worn and
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