Ptomaine Street: The Tale of Warble Petticoat

· 1942

On a Pittsburgh block, where three generations ago might have been heard Indian war-whoops--yes, and the next generation wore hoops, too--a girl child stood, in evident relief, far below the murky gray of the Pittsburgh sky. She couldn't see an Indian, not even a cigar store one, and she wouldn't have noticed him anyway, for she was shaking with laughter.…

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