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Title: The Fotygraft Album
Shown to the New Neighbor by Rebecca Sparks Peters Aged Eleven

Author: Frank Wing

Illustrator: Frank Wing

Release Date: September 4, 2005 [EBook #16639]

Language: English

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"The Fotygraft Album"

Shown to the New Neighbor by
Rebecca Sparks Peters
Aged Eleven

[Illustration]

Drawings and Text by
Frank Wing

Chicago
The Reilly & Britton Co.

Copyright, 1915
by
The Reilly & Britton Co.

First Edition Published May 7, 1915
Second Edition Published Aug. 23, 1915
Third Edition Published Nov. 10, 1915
Fourth Edition Published Dec. 15, 1915
Fifth Edition Published Jan. 5, 1916
Sixth Edition Published May 1, 1916
Seventh Edition Published Sept. 1, 1916

[Illustration: "TURN OVER"]

"Why, how d'do, Mrs. Miggs? Come right on in. Ma's jist run over t'
Smith's a minute t' borruh some thread and some m'lasses and a couple uh
aigs. Aw! yes, come on--she'll be right back. Let's see: S'pose we set on
th' sofa and I'll show yuh th' album, so's yuh'll kinda begin t' know some
of our folks. We like t' be real neighborly and make new folks feel t'
home. There! now we're fixed.

"This here first one's ma when she was little. Ain't she cute? Her Uncle
Seth kep' a store up t' Davenport and he give her them furs. Real mink, I
think it was.

"Turn over."

[Illustration]

"That's Aunt Mary Jane Darnell. Her jimpson-weed salve and peach
perserves was th' best he ever see, pa says. She couldn't abide a man that
primped."

[Illustration]

"Them's grampa and gramma Sparks, ma's pa and ma. Grampa liked bees and
made lots of money off'm honey. He was awful good t' gramma.

"Ma says you kin allus trust a bee man."

[Illustration]

"Here's Ferdinand Ashur Peebles, a favorite cousin of ma's. He ain't got
much time fer them 't ain't so good as what he is, so pa don't like him so
very well. Says he's a hippercrit. O