Are you in need of a good laugh or two? Or maybe even a dozen? Read A Long Way to Chicago and its sequel A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck. You'll have enough laughs to last a long time. I didn't think till halfway through the second one, to mark some of the great quotes, but here are a few that made me laugh:
"Chilly out there." She rubbed her big red hands together. "My teeth is chattering like a woodpecker with palsy."
"Grandma considered my choice. The toothpick hovered. "That them?" she said at last. "Whoooeee, two dollars and seventy-five cents." Her eyes filled her spectacles. "I remember when you could shoe a whole family and the horse for that money."
"The winters were colder back then too, weren't they, Grandma?"
"People starved to death because their jaws froze shut," she said.
Forrest Pugh, Jr's ears stood straight out, like open car doors.
These are stories about the "good old days" which sometimes were good, sometimes weren't so good, and about adventures with an eccentric Grandma who was sometimes believable, some not so believable!
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