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If the title and overall perspective are downers, the writers possess a contagious enthusiasm for showing how today’s profiteers have caked so much lipstick on the pig that you can hardly see its face.

From Washington Post

I hav 2 kittles, a skilit and a duzzen cans in the spring every nite wich is awl it wil hold and days i trys out the silver frum them wich have caked on nites.

From Old Gorgon Graham More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son by Lorimer, George Horace