"Drouth"

[Wilson Gray]

"Drouth"?! Wow, Charlie, I haven't seen that spelling since I moved
away from Texas and stopped reading The Dallas Morning News and The
Marshall News-Messenger (very roughly equivalent to reading The New
York Times and The Boston Globe, nowadays). Well, not really. Even the
Saint Louis newspapers used that spelling, back in the day.

-Wilson
--
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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                                              -Sam'l Clemens

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