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When I think what she gets for one concert now , and then think how long the Ladies ' Aid Society has been working to paint the church and have n't made it yet , it makes me wish we could put Homeburg on wheels and haul it after some of our distinguished children . And what if we had Alex McQuinn to write up the _ Democrat _ again ? Every month we almost ruin ourselves at home buying all the magazines he writes for ; but when he was a fat young thing in spectacles hunting locals and trying to write funny things for the _ Democrat _ , he was n't appreciated at all . Old Judge Hicks , who had no sense of humor , chased him several miles once for telling how he tried to stop the 4:11 train by yelling `` Whoa '' at it . And Editor Ayers had to fire Alex to keep the peace . When Rollin Derby , who draws pictures for your New York paper , went to school , he could climb a tree by digging his bare toes into the rough bark , but was not otherwise distinguished . When Maurice Gadby was a boy in Homeburg , he went barefooted in summer with the rest of us , and who could have guessed that he would grow up to give tango teas for your four hundred and only allow the better quality of them to pay him twenty-five dollars per cup at that ?