"=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=A6_?=pass as Germans, _fore_ a while."

[Wilson Gray]

Clearly, the writer intended

"… _far_ a while." <har! har!>

These dialect differences are a caution, the way that they mess with
your spelling when your brain interferes with oprtation of your
fingers.

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-Wilson
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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.
-Mark Twain

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